Cut Your ETL Costs in Half: Running Redshift Directly on FSx for ONTAP File Data

Organizations build data warehouses as cathedrals. These structures house curated data to power business intelligence. Amazon Redshift serves as the foundation for these systems. It provides SQL analytics at scale and converts complex queries into business confidence. Most digital intelligence lives outside the warehouse. Estimates suggest 80% of data exists as unstructured files. This includes engineering schematics, trading logs, and genomic sequences. This data remains invisible because of protocol walls. File servers use NFS or SMB. Warehouses use S3. These systems rarely communicate. The Protocol Shift The integration of Amazon Redshift with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP via S3 Access Points removes these boundaries. Redshift now queries enterprise file data where it resides. You avoid ETL pipelines. You eliminate format conversion. You stop paying the price of data duplication. Strategic Implications This architecture creates three advantages for your organization. Real Time Operat