Amazon CTO Werner Vogels talks about shutting down the largest Oracle data warehouse Amazon was using and moving to Redshift.
said again that one of his happiest days last year was Nov. 1, when Amazon shut down the largest Oracle data warehouse it was using and moved to Amazon Redshift.
"With all of this, we moved to an environment that's so much more faster, so much more agile," Vogels said.On Wednesday, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said yet again that his" " last year was shutting the retailer's largest Oracle data warehouse and replacing it with the company's own Amazon Redshift."With all of this, we moved to an environment that's so much more faster, so much more agile," Vogels said onstage on Wednesday at an Amazon Web Services summit.
Vogels said that in the past, data warehouses were"such an expensive piece of hardware," but Redshift is more cost-effective. Now, Redshift is"absolutely becoming the most popular cloud data warehouse out there," and it's ten times faster than it was two years ago, he says. "In the past two years, with all these improvements and speed, we've been able to make Redshift 10 times faster," Vogels said.
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