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# Amazon RedShift

## Features

It is a scalable data warehouse service from AWS that can be used for user analytics

It supports warehousing upto petabytes of data

It uses high performance disks and columnar storage

It has in built feature to fully encrypt contents and also provides isolation within a VPC

It has something Redshift Spectrum to support querying exabytes of data in s3