Howtoforge published a tutorial about setting up AWS Redshift for Cloud Data warehousing.

Setting up AWS Redshift for Cloud Data warehousing

In this tutorial, I will explain and guide how to set up AWS Redshift to use Cloud Data Warehousing. Redshift is a fully managed petabyte data warehouse service being introduced to the cloud by Amazon Web Services. It works by combining one or more collections of computing resources called nodes, organized into a group, a cluster. Each cluster runs a Redshift engine and can contain one or more databases.

Setting up AWS Redshift for Cloud Data warehousing