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Evaluating a Proposed Redshift-to-Snowflake Migration
Your company runs Redshift (an older, pre-RA3 provisioned cluster) as its warehouse. A new VP of Data proposes migrating to Snowflake, citing "Snowflake separates storage and compute, Redshift doesn't" as the primary justification, and wants a decision within a week.
- Is the VP's stated justification technically accurate for the current generation of Redshift, or only for the specific (older) deployment your company runs? Explain the distinction.
- Assuming the specific claim about your company's current deployment is accurate, list the concrete operational problems that lack of storage/compute separation is actually causing today — the "so what," not just the architectural label.
- What questions would you want answered before recommending for or against the migration, beyond the single architectural point the VP raised?
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