Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

In this chapter, we will be turning things up a notch and exploring two amazingly powerful AWS services that are ideal for processing and running large-scale analytics and data warehousing in the cloud: Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift.

Keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:

• Understanding the AWS analytics suite of services with an in-depth look at Amazon EMR, along with its use cases and benefits
• Introducing a few key EMR concepts and terminologies, along with a quick getting started tour
• Running a sample workload on EMR, using steps
• Introducing Amazon Redshift
• Getting started with an Amazon Redshift cluster
• Working with Redshift databases and tables
• Loading data from Amazon EMR into Amazon Redshift

So without any further ado, let's get started right away!