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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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