06. Amazon Redshift Architecture

L03-03-Part 2 Amazon Redshift Technology

The total number of nodes in a Redshift cluster is equal to:

SOLUTION: The number of AWS EC2 instances used in the cluster

Each slice in a Redshift cluster is:

SOLUTION: At least 1 CPU with dedicated storage and memory for the slice

If we have a Redshift cluster with 4 nodes, each containing 8 slices, i.e. the cluster collectively offers 32 slices. What is the maximum number of partitions per table?

SOLUTION: 32 partitions