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Scenario: Build a data warehouse in the cloud

Scenario: Build a data warehouse in the cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Scenario: Build a data warehouse in the cloud

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- [Instructor] In this next architectural scenario, I'm going to talk about how I work with AWS Data Services to help my customers build data warehouses. So once again, I'm often called for a NoSQL database or a Hadoop installation and, again, I don't mean to be negative about those data technologies. For certain situations, they work great. However, I want to call out the number of times that I've been asked to do that that the correct solution is actually to use Amazon Redshift. I am such a huge fan of this technology, particularly for shops that I work with where all of the technical talent on board has only worked with Relational Databases. And that's the majority, because NoSQL and Hadoop is new. Now, that being said, I do live and work on the west coast of the U.S., and when I go, for example, to Silicon Valley, Hadoop is actually as prevalent as Relational Databases in that region of the world. So in some ways…

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