Configuring workload management (WLM)
Amazon Redshift workload management (WLM) enables you to set up query priorities in a cluster. WLM helps you create query queues that can be defined based on different parameters such as memory allotment, priority, user groups, query groups, and query monitoring rules. Users generally use WLM to set priorities for different query types, such as long-running versus short running or ETL versus Reporting, and so on. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to configure WLM within a Redshift cluster. By doing this, you can manage multiple workloads running on the same cluster, and each of them can be assigned different priorities based on your business needs.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will need the following:
- An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift
- An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS region eu-west-1
How to do it…
In this recipe, we will configure WLM for your cluster using the AWS Console...