Organizations are constantly finding new ways to make their growing datasets work harder for them. Amazon Redshift Spectrum offers a flexible solution, bridging the gap between data lakes and warehouses to eliminate unnecessary complexity. By pairing it with Immuta’s robust data governance capabilities, they can move even faster – securely accessing and analyzing their data with greater confidence and efficiency.
What is Amazon Redshift Spectrum?
Amazon Redshift Spectrum allows businesses to analyze massive amounts of data directly in Amazon S3, bypassing the need to load it into a warehouse first. This capability makes it an incredibly efficient and cost-effective option for handling both structured and unstructured data.
Amazon Redshift Spectrum stands out because it:
- Breaks down barriers: Seamlessly queries data across lakes and warehouses without time-consuming ETL processes.
- Enables scalability and flexibility: Handles everything from small datasets to petabytes of information with ease.
- Drives cost-efficient analytics: You pay only for the queries you run, optimizing your data processing spend.
Redshift Spectrum provides businesses across every industry with a way to analyze diverse datasets on-demand, from IoT logs to transactional records.
The Redshift Spectrum governance challenge
As organizations adopt tools like Redshift Spectrum, managing access across datasets stored in S3 becomes increasingly complex. Questions like “Who should see this data?” and “How can we ensure compliance?” become harder to answer as datasets grow in size and complexity.
The speed at which data consumers need access to data – that is, as close to real time as possible – puts additional strain on the governance process. As organizations embrace decentralized architectures and data-driven collaboration, they must find the balance between speed and secure access – which requires the right technologies, stakeholders, and processes.
How Immuta supports Redshift Spectrum users
For Redshift Spectrum users, Immuta removes the guesswork and manual effort from data governance. Instead of wondering who should see what data, or whether data access meets compliance standards, data teams can focus on getting the right data to the right people – quickly and securely. By supporting AWS Lake Formation and Redshift Spectrum, Immuta gives businesses the tools to enforce secure access, protect sensitive data, and simplify compliance.
Immuta provides Amazon Redshift Spectrum users with:
- Metadata registry: Enriches embedded data with metadata to create a central registry that enables seamless data policy authoring across any connected cloud platform.
- Data discovery and classification: Automatically identifies, tags, and classifies data, and categorizes it according to regulatory frameworks.
- Policy entitlement engine: Authors scalable policies in plain language that can be tailored based on roles, purposes, and sensitivity, and dynamically masks sensitive data in real time across all support data platforms and compute engines.
- Unified auditing: Creates and maintains consistent audit logs that can be easily searched, analyzed, and used to prove compliance.
- Data domains: Allows users to enforce and manage controls built for specific business units, providing visibility into data usage across the organization and breaking down data silos.
The Redshift Spectrum and Immuta advantage
When paired with Immuta, Redshift Spectrum becomes an even more powerful tool for analyzing data while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. Immuta’s support for core AWS services allow end users to quickly put data from Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon Athena, and other connected platforms to work, with the peace of mind that access will be controlled consistently across all data sources.
With Immuta, Redshift Spectrum users benefit from:
- Faster insights without the wait: Query data immediately, without bottlenecks from manual access approvals.
- Built-in security: Protect sensitive information effortlessly with policies that adjust dynamically based on context, eliminating the need for manual updates.
- Lower operational costs: Use S3 and Redshift Spectrum together to avoid costly data duplication and unnecessary storage.
- Simpler governance: Manage data confidently with policies that apply across platforms and environments.
Take control of your data analytics
Amazon Redshift Spectrum revolutionizes how businesses analyze their data. But when combined with Immuta, data analysis is not only efficient, but also secure and compliant. Whether you’re handling structured data, unstructured data, or both, Immuta and Redshift Spectrum ensure that your data is put to work quickly and safely – so you can collaborate and innovate at the speed of business.