Redshift Lens
Redshift Lens is a tool designed to help users track and optimize their Amazon Redshift costs and usage. It provides a dashboard with insights into operational efficiency, query performance, and best practices, along with actionable recommendations for both compute and storage. Redshift Lens supports both Redshift Provisioned and Redshift Serverless, and gathers data from sources like Amazon Trusted Advisor, Redshift Advisor, CloudWatch Metrics, and system metadata tables.
By offering out-of-the-box insights and optimization recommendations, Redshift Lens aims to help users maximize their cloud spend efficiency and improve their database workload. It addresses the challenges of understanding and optimizing Redshift workloads, which can be complex due to the numerous architectural components and features.