User guide

Amazon Redshift Clusters

Topics

• Overview (p. 5)

• About Clusters and Nodes (p. 6)

• Resizing a Cluster (p. 8)

• Supported Platforms to Launch Your Cluster (p. 9)

• Regions and Availability Zone Considerations (p. 10)

• Maintenance Windows (p. 10)

• Default Disk Space Alarm (p. 11)

• Renaming Clusters (p. 11)

• Shutting Down and Deleting Clusters (p. 12)

• Managing Clusters Using the Console (p. 13)

• Managing Clusters Using the AWS SDK for Java (p. 29)

• Manage Clusters Using the Amazon Redshift CLI and API (p. 31)

• Managing Clusters in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) (p. 32)

Overview

An Amazon Redshift data warehouse is a collection of computing resources called nodes, which are

organized into a group called a cluster. Each cluster runs an Amazon Redshift engine and contains one

or more databases.

Note

At this time Amazon Redshift version 1.0 engine is available. However, as the engine is updated,

multiple Amazon Redshift engine versions might be available for selection.

You can determine the Amazon Redshift engine and database versions for your cluster in the Cluster

Version field in the console. The first two sections of the number are the cluster version, and the last

section is the specific revision number of the database in the cluster. In the following example, the cluster

version is 1.0 and the database revision number is 757.

API Version 2012-12-01

Amazon Redshift Management Guide

Overview