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# Conclusion and further reading
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 There is a strategic shift in data warehousing as enterprises migrate their analytics databases and solutions from on-premises solutions to the cloud, to take advantage of the cloud’s simplicity, performance, elasticity, and cost-effectiveness. This whitepaper offers a comprehensive account of the current state of data warehousing on AWS. AWS provides a broad set of services, and a strong partner ecosystem that enable customers to easily build and run enterprise data warehousing in the cloud. The result is a highly performant, cost-effective analytics architecture that can scale with your business on the AWS global infrastructure. 

## Further Reading
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 For additional information, see: 
+  [Amazon Redshift FAQs](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/) 
+  [Amazon Redshift lake house architecture](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/lake-house-architecture/) 
+  [Amazon Redshift customer success](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/customer-success/) 
+  [Amazon Redshift best practices](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/best-practices.html) 
+  [Implementing workload management](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/cm-c-implementing-workload-management.html) 
+  [Querying external data using Amazon Redshift Spectrum](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c-using-spectrum.html) 
+  [Amazon Redshift Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html) 
+  [Amazon Redshift system overview](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/welcome.html) 
+  [What is Amazon Redshift?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/working-with-HSM.html) 
+  [AWS Key Management Service (KMS)](https://aws.amazon.com/kms/) 
+  [Amazon Redshift JSON functions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/json-functions.html) 
+  [Amazon Redshift pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/) 
+  [Amazon Redshift Partners](https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/partners/) 
+  [AWS Database Migration Service](https://aws.amazon.com/dms/) 
+  [Develop an application migration methodology to modernize your data warehouse with Amazon Redshift](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/develop-an-application-migration-methodology-to-modernize-your-data-warehouse-with-amazon-redshift/) (blog entry) 
+  [What is Streaming Data?](https://aws.amazon.com/streaming-data/) 
+  [Column-oriented DBMS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS)