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I thought they offered this service for quite some time. What's changed?

Hey there! You’re right, we launched Redshift to our enterprise customers last November. There are three big changes today…

1) We’re lowering the price and opening it up to all our customers to make it more accessible 2) You can bring your own database. This is helpful for customers who already have a data warehouse and want to load Segment data into it. 3) We now support Postgres, in addition to Redshift

Thanks for the reply! Any plans on supporting other databases? Namely the Microsoft alternatives (SQL Server/SQL Datawarehouse)?

No problem! They're not yet on our near-term roadmap, would you mind submitting a request for your specific database here and we can keep you updated? https://segment.com/contact/integrations

It wasn't immediately clear to me that I had to bring my own database. That makes this product less appealing. I would love it if I could instrument Segment and get a redshift endpoint to query my data, but didn't have to set it up myself.

Hey, Ilya here from Segment. We actually allow for both:

1. Self Hosted - bring your own Postgres/Redshift

2. Segment Managed - we give you a redshift endpoint (on our business tier)

The two options are described here: https://segment.com/blog/introducing-segment-warehouses-reds... and here's where you contact us regarding the hosted redshift: https://segment.com/contact/redshift

Before it was part of their high-end "business" plan. Now you can use it with any tiered plan. (I think).

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