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by vinothgopi 3604 days ago
Amazon RDS is the managed version of Postgres (among other flavors of relational DBs). Maybe you are confusing it with Redshift.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
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rplst8 3604 days ago
Isn't Redshift also based on PostgreSQL? Edit: it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift and RDS supports many different RDBMS flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relational_Database_Ser...
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heneryville 3604 days ago
Redshift is based on PestgreSQL, but is vastly different. Redshift is a columnar store, and can't do things like create indexes. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_SQL_commands...
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