Fraser: Amazon Redshift was the first cheap, fast data warehouse
George Fraser · Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Sep 18, 2020 · at 5:09
George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, discusses the historical importance of Amazon Redshift launching in AWS in 2013 as an affordable, fast data warehouse.
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“Redshift was incredibly important because it was, it came out in 2013. It was in the AWS console. It wasn't the first really good fast data warehouse, but it was the first one that was cheap.”
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