title: Local development and staging with Amazon Redshift
body: <p>I like to set up tools and services with production, staging, and local development. I'd like to use Amazon Redshift, and starting at $180 a month seems pretty reasonable for a columnar store database, but do I actually have to think about it as $180 x # of environments / month? Is there any way to have a free staging and local environment for Redshift?</p>
  
  <p>It's also nice to be able to do development against a local instance rather than relying on the network. I assume that's not possible with Redshift.</p>
  
  <p>What do you do to make local development easier, faster and cheaper when working with Redshift? </p>