Snowflake vs Redshift — quick comparison

Snowflake separates compute and storage completely — you scale them independently. Redshift coupled them historically, though Redshift Serverless now offers similar separation. Snowflake is multi-cloud (runs on AWS, GCP, Azure); Redshift is AWS-only.

For a junior Data Engineer, the practical takeaway is this: most companies that started after 2020 tend toward Snowflake; AWS-native shops often stick with Redshift. Both speak ANSI SQL, so the day-to-day query writing is nearly identical.