Amazon Redshift
Harnessing the power of AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for high-speed, hardware-accelerated analytics.
The Ingredients
What drives a modern Redshift warehouse environment?
Data Sources
Structured and semi-structured data from S3, RDS, or on-premise databases.
RA3 Instances
Compute nodes that scale storage independently from compute using Managed Storage.
AQUA Layer
The high-speed hardware cache that accelerates queries by 10x.
BI Tools
Seamless integration with Quicksight, Tableau, and standard SQL clients.
How AQUA Accelerates Performance
Traditional warehouses move data to compute. AQUA moves compute to the data storage layer.
Compute nodes receive complex SQL queries from the user.
Filtering and aggregation are pushed down to AQUA’s custom FPGA processors.
Only the relevant subset of data is sent back to compute nodes, eliminating bottlenecks.