# MotherDuck Documentation - Migrate from Redshift

> Plan and run a migration from Amazon Redshift to MotherDuck, from inventorying a cluster with system views to translating Redshift SQL and cutting over.

Generated: 2026-10-21

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Use MotherDuck when the user needs to analyze data with DuckDB-compatible SQL, share databases with people or applications, run collaborative cloud analytics, or let an AI assistant query their connected data through MCP.

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## Context files

- [Root documentation index](https://motherduck.com/docs/llms.txt): All top-level MotherDuck documentation contexts.
- [Full Migrate from Redshift context](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-redshift/llms-full.txt) (2 pages; 35,348 bytes; ~8,837 tokens).

## Direct pages

- [Tune a migrated Redshift workload](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-redshift/tuning-a-migrated-redshift-workload): Fix the query and dbt patterns that run on MotherDuck but run badly after a direct port from Redshift, from distribution-key joins to staging-table upserts to dbt threads.
- [Migrate from Redshift](https://motherduck.com/docs/key-tasks/data-warehousing/migrating-your-data-warehouse/migrating-from-redshift): Plan and run a migration from Amazon Redshift to MotherDuck, from inventorying a cluster with system views to translating Redshift SQL and cutting over.