# Amazon Redshift Spectrum

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-redshift-spectrum
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-redshift-spectrum.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-redshift-spectrum/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://amazon.com
- **Slug:** amazon-redshift-spectrum
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, data-analytics-business-intelligence

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The ability to join S3 'cold' data with 'hot' local Redshift data in a single SQL query without moving the data.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Amazon Redshift Spectrum is a feature of the Amazon Redshift data warehouse service that allows users to run SQL queries against exabytes of unstructured data in Amazon S3. It eliminates the need for data loading or transformation by querying data directly in the data lake using the same SQL syntax as standard Redshift.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:** Amazon Redshift Spectrum (S3 Query Engine)
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based ($5 per Terabyte scanned)
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Enterprise Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Big Data Architects
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Amazon Athena
  - Snowflake
  - Presto / Trino
  - Google BigQuery Omni
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.