Optimize your workloads with Amazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling and optimization

The present scaling strategy of Amazon Redshift Serverless will increase your compute capability primarily based on the question queue time and scales down when the queuing reduces on the info warehouse. Nevertheless, you may must mechanically scale compute assets primarily based on elements like question complexity and information quantity to fulfill price-performance targets, regardless of question queuing. To handle this requirement, Redshift Serverless launched the synthetic intelligence (AI)-driven scaling and optimization characteristic, which scales the compute not solely primarily based on the queuing, but in addition factoring information quantity and question complexity.

On this submit, we describe how Redshift Serverless makes use of the brand new AI-driven scaling and optimization capabilities to handle widespread use circumstances. This submit additionally consists of instance SQLs, which you’ll run by yourself Redshift Serverless information warehouse to expertise the advantages of this characteristic.

Answer overview

The AI-powered scaling and optimization characteristic in Redshift Serverless gives a user-friendly visible slider to set your required steadiness between worth and efficiency. By transferring the slider, you’ll be able to select between optimized for value, balanced efficiency and value, or optimized for efficiency. Based mostly on the place you place the slider, Amazon Redshift will mechanically add or take away assets to make sure higher conduct and carry out different AI-driven optimizations like computerized materialized views and computerized desk design optimization to fulfill your chosen price-performance goal.

The slider gives the next choices:

• Optimized for value – Prioritizes value financial savings. Redshift makes an attempt to mechanically scale up compute capability when doing so and doesn’t incur extra expenses. And it’ll additionally try and scale down compute for decrease value, regardless of longer runtime.
• Balanced – Affords steadiness between efficiency and value. Redshift scales for efficiency with a reasonable value improve.
• Optimized for efficiency – Prioritizes efficiency. Redshift scales aggressively for max efficiency, probably incurring greater prices.

Within the following sections, we illustrate how the AI-driven scaling and optimization characteristic can intelligently predict your workload compute wants and scale proactively for 3 situations:

• Use case 1 – A protracted-running advanced question. Compute scales primarily based on question complexity.
• Use case 2 – A sudden spike in ingestion quantity (a three-fold improve, from 720 million to 2.1 billion). Compute scales primarily based on information quantity.
• Use case 3 – An information lake question scanning giant datasets (TBs). Compute scales primarily based on the anticipated information to be scanned from the info lake. The anticipated information scan is predicted by machine studying (ML) fashions primarily based on prior historic run statistics.

Within the current auto scaling mechanism, the use circumstances don’t improve compute capability mechanically except queuing is recognized throughout the occasion.

Stipulations

To observe alongside, full the next stipulations:

1. Create a Redshift Serverless workgroup in preview mode. For directions, see Making a preview workgroup.
2. Whereas creating the preview group, select Efficiency and Price Controls and Value-performance goal, and regulate the slider to Optimized for efficiency. For extra data, confer with Amazon Redshift provides new AI capabilities, together with Amazon Q, to spice up effectivity and productiveness.
3. Arrange an AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) function because the default IAM function. Confer with Managing IAM roles created for a cluster utilizing the console for directions.
4. We use TPC-DS 1TB Cloud Knowledge Warehouse Benchmark information to exhibit this characteristic. Run the SQL statements to create tables and cargo the TPC-DS 1TB information.

Use case 1: Scale compute primarily based on question complexity

The next question analyzes product gross sales throughout a number of channels akin to web sites, wholesale, and retail shops. This advanced question sometimes takes about 25 minutes to run with the default 128 RPUs. Let’s run this workload on the preview workgroup created as a part of stipulations.

When a question is run for the primary time, the AI scaling system might make a suboptimal determination relating to useful resource allocation or scaling because the system continues to be studying the question and information traits. Nevertheless, the system learns from this expertise, and when the identical question is run once more, it could possibly make a extra optimum scaling determination. Subsequently, if the question didn’t scale in the course of the first run, it’s endorsed to rerun the question. You may monitor the RPU capability used on the Redshift Serverless console or by querying the SYS_SERVERLSS_USAGE system view.

The outcomes cache is turned off within the following queries to keep away from fetching outcomes from the cache.

SET enable_result_cache_for_session TO off;
with /* TPC-DS demo question */
    ws as
    (choose d_year AS ws_sold_year, ws_item_sk,    ws_bill_customer_sk
     ws_customer_sk,    sum(ws_quantity) ws_qty,    sum(ws_wholesale_cost) ws_wc,
        sum(ws_sales_price) ws_sp   from web_sales   left be part of web_returns on
     wr_order_number=ws_order_number and ws_item_sk=wr_item_sk   be part of date_dim
     on ws_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk   the place wr_order_number is null   group by
     d_year, ws_item_sk, ws_bill_customer_sk   ),
    cs as  
    (choose d_year AS cs_sold_year,
     cs_item_sk,    cs_bill_customer_sk cs_customer_sk,    sum(cs_quantity) cs_qty,
        sum(cs_wholesale_cost) cs_wc,    sum(cs_sales_price) cs_sp   from catalog_sales
       left be part of catalog_returns on cr_order_number=cs_order_number and cs_item_sk=cr_item_sk
       be part of date_dim on cs_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk   the place cr_order_number is
     null   group by d_year, cs_item_sk, cs_bill_customer_sk   ),
    ss as  
    (choose
     d_year AS ss_sold_year, ss_item_sk,    ss_customer_sk,    sum(ss_quantity)
     ss_qty,    sum(ss_wholesale_cost) ss_wc,    sum(ss_sales_price) ss_sp
       from store_sales left be part of store_returns on sr_ticket_number=ss_ticket_number
     and ss_item_sk=sr_item_sk   be part of date_dim on ss_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk
       the place sr_ticket_number is null   group by d_year, ss_item_sk, ss_customer_sk
       ) 
       
       choose 
       ss_customer_sk,spherical(ss_qty/(coalesce(ws_qty+cs_qty,1)),2)
     ratio,ss_qty store_qty, ss_wc store_wholesale_cost, ss_sp store_sales_price,
    coalesce(ws_qty,0)+coalesce(cs_qty,0) other_chan_qty,coalesce(ws_wc,0)+coalesce(cs_wc,0)
     other_chan_wholesale_cost,coalesce(ws_sp,0)+coalesce(cs_sp,0) other_chan_sales_price
    from ss left be part of ws on (ws_sold_year=ss_sold_year and ws_item_sk=ss_item_sk
     and ws_customer_sk=ss_customer_sk)left be part of cs on (cs_sold_year=ss_sold_year
     and cs_item_sk=cs_item_sk and cs_customer_sk=ss_customer_sk)the place coalesce(ws_qty,0)>0
     and coalesce(cs_qty, 0)>0 order by   ss_customer_sk,  ss_qty desc, ss_wc
     desc, ss_sp desc,  other_chan_qty,  other_chan_wholesale_cost,  other_chan_sales_price,
      spherical(ss_qty/(coalesce(ws_qty+cs_qty,1)),2);

When the question is full, run the next SQL to seize the beginning and finish occasions of the question, which can be used within the subsequent question:

choose query_id,query_text,start_time,end_time, elapsed_time/1000000.0 duration_in_seconds
from sys_query_history
the place query_text like '%TPC-DS demo question%'
and query_text not like '%sys_query_history%'
order by start_time desc

Let’s assess the compute scaled in the course of the previous start_time and end_time interval. Substitute start_time and end_time within the following question with the output of the previous question:

choose * from sys_serverless_usage
the place end_time >= 'start_time'
and end_time <= DATEADD(minute,1,'end_time')
order by end_time asc

-- Instance
--select * from sys_serverless_usage
--where end_time >= '2024-06-03 00:17:12.322353'
--and end_time <= DATEADD(minute,1,'2024-06-03 00:19:11.553218')
--order by end_time asc

The next screenshot exhibits an instance output.

You may discover the rise in compute over the length of this question. This demonstrates how Redshift Serverless scales primarily based on question complexity.

Use case 2: Scale compute primarily based on information quantity

Let’s contemplate the web_sales ingestion job. For this instance, your day by day ingestion job processes 720 million data and completes in a mean of two minutes. That is what you ingested within the prerequisite steps.

As a consequence of some occasion (akin to month finish processing), your volumes elevated by thrice and now your ingestion job must course of 2.1 billion data. In an current scaling strategy, this may improve your ingestion job runtime except the queue time is sufficient to invoke extra compute assets. However with AI-driven scaling, in efficiency optimized mode, Amazon Redshift mechanically scales compute to finish your ingestion job inside traditional runtimes. This helps defend your ingestion SLAs.

Run the next job to ingest 2.1 billion data into the web_sales desk:

copy web_sales from 's3://redshift-downloads/TPC-DS/2.13/3TB/web_sales/' iam_role default gzip delimiter '|' EMPTYASNULL area 'us-east-1';

Run the next question to match the length of ingesting 2.1 billion data and 720 million data. Each ingestion jobs accomplished in roughly the same time, regardless of the three-fold improve in quantity.

choose query_id,table_name,data_source,loaded_rows,length/1000000.0 duration_in_seconds , start_time,end_time
from sys_load_history
the place
table_name="web_sales"
order by start_time desc

Run the next question with the beginning occasions and finish occasions from the earlier output:

choose * from sys_serverless_usage
the place end_time >= 'start_time'
and end_time <= DATEADD(minute,1,'end_time')
order by end_time asc

The next is an instance output. You may discover the rise in compute capability for the ingestion job that processes 2.1 billion data. This illustrates how Redshift Serverless scaled primarily based on information quantity.

Use case 3: Scale information lake queries

On this use case, you create exterior tables pointing to TPC-DS 3TB information in an Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) location. Then you definately run a question that scans a big quantity of information to exhibit how Redshift Serverless can mechanically scale compute capability as wanted.

Within the following SQL, present the ARN of the default IAM function you connected within the stipulations:

-- Create exterior schema
create exterior schema ext_tpcds_3t
from information catalog
database ext_tpcds_db
iam_role ''
create exterior database if not exists;

Create exterior tables by working DDL statements within the following SQL file. You must see seven exterior tables within the question editor below the ext_tpcds_3t schema, as proven within the following screenshot.

Run the next question utilizing exterior tables. As talked about within the first use case, if the question didn’t scale in the course of the first run, it’s endorsed to rerun the question, as a result of the system could have discovered from the earlier expertise and might probably present higher scaling and efficiency for the next run.

The outcomes cache is turned off within the following queries to keep away from fetching outcomes from the cache.

SET enable_result_cache_for_session TO off;

with /* TPC-DS demo information lake question */

ws as
(choose d_year AS ws_sold_year, ws_item_sk, ws_bill_customer_sk
ws_customer_sk,    sum(ws_quantity) ws_qty,    sum(ws_wholesale_cost) ws_wc,
sum(ws_sales_price) ws_sp   from ext_tpcds_3t.web_sales   left be part of ext_tpcds_3t.web_returns on
wr_order_number=ws_order_number and ws_item_sk=wr_item_sk   be part of ext_tpcds_3t.date_dim
on ws_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk   the place wr_order_number is null   group by
d_year, ws_item_sk, ws_bill_customer_sk   ),

cs as
(choose d_year AS cs_sold_year,
cs_item_sk,    cs_bill_customer_sk cs_customer_sk,    sum(cs_quantity) cs_qty,
sum(cs_wholesale_cost) cs_wc,    sum(cs_sales_price) cs_sp   from ext_tpcds_3t.catalog_sales
left be part of ext_tpcds_3t.catalog_returns on cr_order_number=cs_order_number and cs_item_sk=cr_item_sk
be part of ext_tpcds_3t.date_dim on cs_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk   the place cr_order_number is
null   group by d_year, cs_item_sk, cs_bill_customer_sk   ),

ss as
(choose
d_year AS ss_sold_year, ss_item_sk,    ss_customer_sk,    sum(ss_quantity)
ss_qty,    sum(ss_wholesale_cost) ss_wc,    sum(ss_sales_price) ss_sp
from ext_tpcds_3t.store_sales left be part of ext_tpcds_3t.store_returns on sr_ticket_number=ss_ticket_number
and ss_item_sk=sr_item_sk   be part of ext_tpcds_3t.date_dim on ss_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk
the place sr_ticket_number is null   group by d_year, ss_item_sk, ss_customer_sk)

SELECT           ss_customer_sk,spherical(ss_qty/(coalesce(ws_qty+cs_qty,1)),2)
ratio,ss_qty store_qty, ss_wc store_wholesale_cost, ss_sp store_sales_price,
coalesce(ws_qty,0)+coalesce(cs_qty,0) other_chan_qty,coalesce(ws_wc,0)+coalesce(cs_wc,0)    other_chan_wholesale_cost,coalesce(ws_sp,0)+coalesce(cs_sp,0) other_chan_sales_price
FROM ss left be part of ws on (ws_sold_year=ss_sold_year and ws_item_sk=ss_item_sk and ws_customer_sk=ss_customer_sk)left be part of cs on (cs_sold_year=ss_sold_year and cs_item_sk=cs_item_sk and cs_customer_sk=ss_customer_sk)
the place coalesce(ws_qty,0)>0
and coalesce(cs_qty, 0)>0
order by   ss_customer_sk,  ss_qty desc, ss_wc desc, ss_sp desc,  other_chan_qty,  other_chan_wholesale_cost,  other_chan_sales_price,     spherical(ss_qty/(coalesce(ws_qty+cs_qty,1)),2);

Evaluate the full elapsed time of the question. You want the start_time and end_time from the outcomes to feed into the subsequent question.

choose query_id,query_text,start_time,end_time, elapsed_time/1000000.0 duration_in_seconds
from sys_query_history
the place query_text like '%TPC-DS demo information lake question%'
and query_text not like '%sys_query_history%'
order by start_time desc

Run the next question to see how compute scaled in the course of the previous start_time and end_time interval. Substitute start_time and end_time within the following question from the output of the previous question:

choose * from sys_serverless_usage
the place end_time >= 'start_time'
and end_time <= DATEADD(minute,1,'end_time')
order by end_time asc

The next screenshot exhibits an instance output.

The elevated compute capability for this information lake question exhibits that Redshift Serverless can scale to match the info being scanned. This demonstrates how Redshift Serverless can dynamically allocate assets primarily based on question wants.

Concerns when selecting your price-performance goal

You should use the price-performance slider to decide on your required price-performance goal in your workload. The AI-driven scaling and optimizations present holistic optimizations utilizing the next fashions:

• Question prediction fashions – These decide the precise useful resource wants (reminiscence, CPU consumption, and so forth) for every particular person question
• Scaling prediction fashions – These predict how the question would behave on totally different capability sizes

Let’s contemplate a question that takes 7 minutes and prices $7. The next determine exhibits the question runtimes and value with no scaling.

A given question may scale in a couple of other ways, as proven under. Based mostly on the price-performance goal you selected on the slider, AI-driven scaling predicts how the question trades off efficiency and value, and scales it accordingly.

The slider choices yield the next outcomes:

• Optimized for value – While you select Optimized for value, the warehouse scales up if there is no such thing as a extra value or lesser prices to the consumer. Within the previous instance, the superlinear scaling strategy demonstrates this conduct. Scaling will solely happen if it may be performed in a cheap method in accordance with the scaling mannequin predictions. If the scaling fashions predict that cost-optimized scaling isn’t potential for the given workload, then the warehouse gained’t scale.
• Balanced – With the Balanced choice, the system will scale in favor of efficiency and there can be a price improve, however it is going to be a restricted improve in value. Within the previous instance, the linear scaling strategy demonstrates this conduct.
• Optimized for efficiency – With the Optimized for efficiency choice, the system will scale in favor of efficiency although the prices are greater and non-linear. Within the previous instance, the sublinear scaling strategy demonstrates this conduct. The nearer the slider place is to the Optimized for efficiency place, the extra sublinear scaling is permitted.

The next are extra factors to notice:

• The worth-performance slider choices are dynamic and they are often modified anytime. Nevertheless, the influence of those adjustments won’t be realized instantly. The influence of that is efficient because the system learns easy methods to scale the present workload and any extra workloads higher.
• The worth-performance slider choices, Max capability and Max RPU-hours are designed to work collectively. Max capability and Max RPU-hours are the controls to restrict most RPUs the info warehouse allowed to scale and most RPU hours allowed to eat respectively. These controls are at all times honored and enforced whatever the settings on the price-performance goal slider.
• The AI-driven scaling and optimization characteristic dynamically adjusts compute assets to optimize question runtime velocity whereas adhering to your price-performance necessities. It considers elements akin to question queueing, concurrency, quantity, and complexity. The system can both run queries on a compute useful resource with decrease concurrent queries or spin up extra compute assets to keep away from queueing. The aim is to offer the most effective price-performance steadiness primarily based in your decisions.

Monitoring

You may monitor the RPU scaling within the following methods:

• Evaluate the RPU capability used graph on the Amazon Redshift console.
• Monitor the ComputeCapacity metric below AWS/Redshift-Serverless and Workgroup in Amazon CloudWatch.
• Question the SYS_QUERY_HISTORY view, offering the precise question ID or question textual content to establish the time interval. Use this time interval to question the SYS_SERVERLSS_USAGE system view to seek out the compute_capacity The compute_capacity area will present the RPUs scaled in the course of the question runtime.

Confer with Configure monitoring, limits, and alarms in Amazon Redshift Serverless to maintain prices predictable for the step-by-step directions on utilizing these approaches.

Clear up

Full the next steps to delete the assets you created to keep away from surprising prices:

1. Delete the Redshift Serverless workgroup.
2. Delete the Redshift Serverless related namespace.

Conclusion

On this submit, we mentioned easy methods to optimize your workloads to scale primarily based on the adjustments in information quantity and question complexity. We demonstrated an strategy to implement extra responsive, proactive scaling with the AI-driven scaling characteristic in Redshift Serverless. Do that characteristic in your atmosphere, conduct a proof of idea in your particular workloads, and share your suggestions with us.

In regards to the Authors

Satesh Sonti is a Sr. Analytics Specialist Options Architect primarily based out of Atlanta, specialised in constructing enterprise information platforms, information warehousing, and analytics options. He has over 19 years of expertise in constructing information property and main advanced information platform packages for banking and insurance coverage shoppers throughout the globe.

Ashish Agrawal is a Principal Product Supervisor with Amazon Redshift, constructing cloud-based information warehouses and analytics cloud companies. Ashish has over 25 years of expertise in IT. Ashish has experience in information warehouses, information lakes, and platform as a service. Ashish has been a speaker at worldwide technical conferences.

Davide Pagano is a Software program Growth Supervisor with Amazon Redshift primarily based out of Palo Alto, specialised in constructing cloud-based information warehouses and analytics cloud companies options. He has over 10 years of expertise with databases, out of which 6 years of expertise tailor-made to Amazon Redshift.