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Amazon Redshift data ingestion options

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This article discusses various options for ingesting data into Amazon Redshift, a cloud-based data warehousing service from AWS.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • The Amazon Redshift COPY command for loading data from sources like Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Amazon DynamoDB, and remote hosts
  • Amazon Redshift federated queries for querying live data across Amazon RDS and Aurora databases
  • Zero-ETL integrations to ingest data from Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and DynamoDB without ETL
  • Amazon Redshift integration with Apache Spark for performing data transformations before loading into Redshift
  • Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion for ingesting data from Kinesis, Amazon MSK, and Data Firehose in near real-time
  • Conclusion highlighting the factors to consider when choosing a data ingestion option


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