# Redshift

## Redshift

* Is a fast, **fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse**, based upon PostgreSQL engine.
* Perfect for Big Data storage solutions.
  * Specifically designed for (OLAP - Online Analytics Processing) and (BI) applications, which require complex queries against large datasets.
* `Redshift` cluster is a set of nodes, which consists of a leader node and one or more compute nodes.
* Choice of type and size for nodes.
