Scheduling Elastic Resizing
Although we've reviewed the on-demand resize operations that satisfy most use cases, there are times when customers are interested in scheduling a resize operation based on their business requirements. For example, you might want to upsize your cluster before starting your scheduled extract, transform and load process to satisfy any SLA needs.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will need the following:
- An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift
- An IAM role,
Chapter8RedshiftSchedulerRole, that can schedule elastic resizing for a Redshift cluster - An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS Region eu-west-1
How to do it…
In this recipe, you will learn how to elastic resize the existing Redshift cluster using a schedule:
- Open the Amazon Redshift console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/redshiftv2/home.
- Select the cluster, click Actions, and select Resize:
Figure 8.27 – Cluster management
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