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title: "Amazon Redshift: ask your data in plain words · Adea"
description: "Adea reads your Amazon Redshift cluster with a read-only user and answers business questions in plain words, with the query shown."
url: https://adea.app/integrations/redshift
---

# Ask your Redshift data about the business instead of writing SQL.

Give Adea a user that can only read and ask about orders, sessions or margin. Each answer comes with the query behind it.

[Connect Amazon Redshift](https://adea.app/signup) [Read the setup guide](https://adea.app/docs/connect-database)

You can connect Amazon Redshift today.

## What Adea reads from Amazon Redshift

- Schemas and tables the user can read
- Fact and dimension tables as your team has modelled them
- Totals and trends, read with plain SELECT queries
- Late-binding views, where your team uses them

## How it connects

A user that can only read

[Read the setup guide](https://adea.app/docs/connect-database)

## What you can ask

You ask

Which regions grew fastest in Q3?

Adea answers

The Nordics grew 18 percent to €1.42 million. Germany added the most in absolute terms, €310,000, while Spain was flat.

You ask

How many orders shipped late in September?

Adea answers

412 of 9,860, 4.2 percent. 261 of the late ones came from the north warehouse.

## Questions about Amazon Redshift

### How does Adea connect to Redshift?

You create a user with read rights only and give Adea the details. Adea checks that it cannot write, and connects from fixed addresses you can allow in the cluster's security group.

### Can Adea change my cluster or data?

No. It only reads.

### Will every answer show where it came from?

Yes. Adea shows the query, so your analyst can check it.

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## Other sources like this

[BigQuery](https://adea.app/integrations/bigquery) [Snowflake](https://adea.app/integrations/snowflake) [ClickHouse](https://adea.app/integrations/clickhouse) [Databricks](https://adea.app/integrations/databricks) [All sources](https://adea.app/integrations)

## What do you want to know?

[Start free](https://adea.app/signup) [Book 20 minutes](mailto:hello@adea.app?subject=20%20minutes%20about%20Adea)