AI-powered Query Optimization in Redshift

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To accomplish AI-powered query optimization in Redshift using Pulumi, we'll leverage the AWS Redshift service to create a Redshift cluster. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that allows you to run complex analytic queries against petabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar storage on high-performance storage, and massively parallel query execution.

Here's what we will do in this Pulumi Python program:

1. Create a Redshift cluster,
2. Set up initial configurations for the cluster, including node type, number of nodes, and database name.
3. Configure the master user credentials for accessing the Redshift cluster.
4. Optimize for query performance via query optimization features provided by AWS, which are implicitly included in the Redshift service.

The AI-driven query optimization in Redshift is mostly managed by AWS under the hood. It utilizes machine learning to generate efficient query execution plans, which improves your query performance. However, as an end-user, you do not interact directly with the AI component via Pulumi or AWS SDK calls; AWS Redshift service handles this internally.

Below is the full Pulumi program that sets up a Redshift cluster with the key configurations. Note that the program does not explicitly set query optimization as it's managed by Redshift itself once the cluster is up and running.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Define the Redshift cluster
redshift_cluster = aws.redshift.Cluster("my-redshift-cluster",
    cluster_identifier="my-redshift-cluster",
    database_name="mydbname",
    master_username="adminuser",
    master_user_password="adminpassword",
    node_type="dc2.large",  # Choose an appropriate node type based on your needs
    cluster_type="multi-node",  # Choose 'multi-node' for a production-level setup
    number_of_nodes=2,  # Define the number of compute nodes in the cluster
    publicly_accessible=True,  # Should only be true if this is required, default should be False
    skip_final_snapshot=True)  # Should only be true for dev/test environments

# Export the Redshift cluster endpoint
pulumi.export('redshift_cluster_endpoint', redshift_cluster.endpoint)
```

When you run this Pulumi program, Pulumi communicates with AWS to provision a Redshift cluster according to the specifications laid out in the code above. Query optimization through AI is automatically applied to all queries executed against the Redshift data warehouse, although you can also perform query tuning and analyze query performance manually through the AWS console or using additional tooling.

It's important to modify `master_user_password` with a strong, secure password and handle such secrets appropriately using Pulumi's secret management. Additionally, in production environments, `publicly_accessible` should typically be set to `False` and `skip_final_snapshot` to `False` to allow for recovery of the cluster's data when the cluster is deleted.

Please ensure your AWS CLI is configured with the right credentials and default region to deploy AWS resources. Once your credentials are set up, you can run this program using the Pulumi CLI to create your Redshift cluster.