SL#140 - AWS Services (29/120) - Amazon Redshift: Serverless at 4 RPUs, Distribution Keys, and the EXPLAIN Operator That Tells You Your Join Is Moving Data

Redshift is a columnar warehouse where the one decision that matters most is how rows are laid out across compute. This article defines the service, prices it, lists the limits, then builds a serverless warehouse and reads the query plan of the same join under three distribution styles.