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numlocked on Nov 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

We’ve been battling Redshift scaling problems so it’s fluctuated a lot over the last 6 months (both up and down). $15k per month to an order of magnitude (not counting Looker licensing).

YourSavingGrace on Nov 12, 2019 [–]

That seems like a lot. Snowflake typically cuts Redshift bills in half if you are hitting limits with RS

squirrelly on Nov 13, 2019 | [–]

ORLY? Redshift is half the cost of Snowflake for any given level of performance. The bigger your dataset to wider the gap will be.

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