Are you planning to launch a cloud analytic database for a data warehouse or other analytic need? While the cloud offers simplicity and quick provisioning, it also offers a path to sure failure if the model is misused.

The cloud analytic database needs to be built to give users and applications access to high-performing, high-quality, supported and understandable data, and it needs to built as agile.

This agile need means producing an MVP (minimally viable product) in the Proof of Concept (POC), with the ability to expand from there.

Consider the steps to truly provision AWS Redshift for even a POC:

• Create and Launch EC2 Instance
  – Choose your Amazon Machine Instance
  – Choose your Instance Type
  – Add Storage
  – Configure Security Group
  – PEM Key Pair
  – Connect/SSH to Instance
  – Access keys
• Set up S3 Storage
  – Create bucket
• Set up Redshift
  – Identity & Access Management
  – Create Role and Attach Policies
  – Configure Cluster
  – Launch Cluster
• Load Data
• Query Data
• Create Statistics
• Manual & Automatic Snapshots
• Distribution Keys
• Elastic Resize
• Vacuum Tables
• Cluster Parameter Group (for Workload Management)
• Short Query Acceleration

We have built proofs-of-concept as part of many of the Information Management Action Plan (IMAP) and Data Warehouse implementation clients we have delivered for over the years.

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