Amazon Redshift changelog
84 announcements since January 2025 · 5 GA · 4 price changes · 8 Region expansions
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October 20265
Automated cross-region snapshot copy for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups
Available in New Zealand, Calgary and both GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Creates and refreshes Apache Iceberg materialized views readable by any Iceberg-compatible engine
Cross-Region queries of S3 data lake tables, with enhanced VPC routing keeping traffic in your VPC
September 20263
August 20267
IAM Identity Center authentication now works with enhanced VPC routing over PrivateLink
Reads and writes Apache Iceberg v3 tables with default values, row lineage and deletion vectors
Ingests Kinesis Data Streams records up to 10 MiB, up from 1 MiB
Concurrency scaling for Kinesis Data Streams streaming materialized view refreshes, from patch P203
System table retention extends beyond 7 days, with data written to S3 Tables in Iceberg format
rg.large and rg.12xlarge sizes added in both AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
July 20267
rg.large and rg.12xlarge supported on the trailing track from patch P202
Adds long polling, ListSessions, and AUTO_COMMIT batch execution with shared parametersGA
All Upfront payment option for 3-year reservations, up to 50% savings over on-demandPrice
Adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge sizes on the current track (P202) in 27 RegionsGA
Zero-ETL and S3 event integrations are preserved when restoring a snapshot to the same namespace
Graviton-based rg.4xlarge and rg.xlarge instance types supported on trailing track P201
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East)Region
June 20263
May 20265
4-RPU minimum capacity added in 7 more Regions, including GovCloudRegion
Adds ALTER TABLE support and writes to Iceberg tables via the Glue Data Catalog mount
Graviton-powered nodes up to 2.4x faster than RA3 at 30% lower price per vCPUGA
Concurrency scaling now covers COPY queries for Parquet and ORC files from Amazon S3GA
Concurrency scaling now supports auto-copy and zero-ETL ingestion on Serverless and RA3 ProvisionedGA