AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 457

Which AWS service can a company use to perform complex analytical queries?

Answer options

• A. Amazon RDS
• B. Amazon DynamoDB
• C. Amazon Redshift
• D. Amazon ElastiCache

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service optimized for running complex analytical queries on structured data. Amazon RDS is suited for traditional relational transaction processing (OLTP), Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database for fast operational workloads, and Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory data store used for caching.