Amazon says Redshift now available in Singapore Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Amazon Redshift and Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) High Storage Instances are now available in the AWS Singapore Region. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can launch an Amazon Redshift cluster, starting with a few hundred gigabytes and scaling to a petabyte or more, for under US$1,000 per terabyte per year.

With Amazon Redshift, customers can increase query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set, using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. Amazon Redshift uses a number of techniques, including columnar data storage, advanced compression, and high-performance IO and network, to achieve significantly higher performance than traditional databases for data warehousing and analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 High Storage Instances provide high storage density per instance and are ideal for applications that require high performance sequential read and write capabilities over very large data sets, such as data warehousing and Hadoop clusters. With High Storage instances, customers can run demanding data-driven applications without any up-front capital investments while benefiting from the low-cost and high elasticity of Amazon EC2.

Many Amazon Redshift customers are significantly lowering their costs, improving performance, and free of the hassle and complexity of managing and operating an on-premises data warehouse.