At its re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy today announced the launch of AQUA (the Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, the company’s data warehousing service.

As Jassy noted in his keynote, it’s hard to scale data warehouses when you want to do analytics over that data.

So to handle this, AQUA is essentially a hardware-accelerated cache and promises up to 10x better query performance than competing cloud-based data warehouses.

“Think about how much data you have to move over the network to get to your compute,” Jassy said.

In addition, AWS also today announced next-generation compute instances for Redshift, the RA3 instances, with 48 vCPUs and 384GiB of memory and up to 64 TB of storage. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575396008.709964/AWS-speeds-up-Redshift-queries-10x-with-AQUA-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience