Before we start, we need to create an AWS account or use an existing one. AWS offers us a two month free trial, and then we can spin up the smallest Redshift cluster and do important network settings to open access from our local machine to Amazon Redshift. Finally, we will load some sample data into Redshift from an S3 bucket, and then we will query and connect Tableau Desktop.
In this section, we will go deep into data engineering design to show you the main principles of working with big data, so that we can use the strength of each tool. These patterns could be applicable to any other big data platform.