Migrate Amazon Redshift from DC2 to RA3 to accommodate increasing data volumes and analytics demands
Big Data Blog
This article discusses how the ecommerce company Dafiti migrated their Amazon Redshift data warehouse from DC2 to RA3 node types to accommodate increasing data volumes and analytics demands.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Background on Dafiti's use of Amazon Redshift and the need to migrate to RA3 for more storage capacity and performance
- The migration process from DC2 to RA3, including cluster sizing, testing, and rollback plans
- Results of the migration, including 40% faster workload performance and ability to scale storage independently
- Benefits of RA3 features like data sharing for enabling a data mesh architecture
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