[shanif]

I'd have to agree with arielweisberg here. Our organization was really excited about Redshift a few days ago, but after seeing each of our individual INSERTs take upwards of 2 seconds, and hearing that we should first upload to S3 or Dynamo, we decided the platform would not fit our needs.

Our goal is minimal architecture complexity, and to upload log files or other data to a file system before loading it into a data warehouse just doesn't make sense.

We're currently looking into Hadoop/HDFS/Impala due to cost constraints (Vertica would have been our primary choice). If anyone has any other suggestions it would be great to hear them.