AWS Named as a Leader in The Forrester Wave

On June 15, Forrester published the Big Data Warehouse, Q2 2017, in which Amazon Web Services is positioned as a Leader.

According to Forrester, “With more than 5,000 deployments, Amazon Redshift has the largest data warehouse deployments in the cloud.” AWS received the highest score possible, 5/5, for customer base, market awareness, ability to execute, road map, support, and partners. “AWS’s key strengths lie in its dynamic scale, automated administration, flexibility of database offerings, good security, and high availability (HA) capabilities, which make it a preferred choice for customers.

The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Warehouse, Q2 2017 by Noel Yuhanna, June 15, 2017

Amazon Redshift has the largest adoption of BDW in the cloud. With more than 5,000 deployments, Amazon Redshift has the largest data warehouse deployments in the cloud —some over 10 petabytes in size. Amazon Redshift is an MPP architecture that distributes nodes in a scale-out configuration. AWS's key strengths lie in its dynamic scale, automated administration, flexibility of database offerings, good security, and high availability (HA) capabilities, which make it a preferred choice for customers. Enterprises like Amazon Redshift's ability to quickly resize and size warehouse for large petabyte-sized data warehouse deployment, low subscription cost, and integration with other Amazon Web Services services to support elastic search, interactive query, real-time streaming, backup, recovery, and data ingestion. However, organizations claim it lags in query and workload scalability, data modeling, and data integration services. AWS's road map focuses on further improvements in automation, performance, and security.

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