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Create and Restore a Snapshot in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse service offered by AWS. It is primarily used for analytical use cases. In this lab, you will create a Redshift cluster and explore the backup policies supported by Redshift. Then, you will learn to backup data from Amazon Redshift using the manual snapshot feature. Finally, you will see how to restore the data into a new cluster from the backed-up snapshot.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 23, 2025
Duration
45m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create a Redshift Cluster

    Launch the AWS management console, switch to Amazon Redshift service, and create a cluster.

  2. Challenge

    Create a Manual Snapshot

    From the cluster you previously created, create a manual snapshot to back up the data and address any data loss/corruption issues.

  3. Challenge

    Restore Data from the Snapshot

    Select the manual snapshot and restore the data into a new cluster.

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