Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift adds support for creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views

Amazon Redshift now supports the creation and refresh of Apache Iceberg materialized views. Materialized views pre-compute expensive joins and aggregations once and store the results in an Apache Iceberg table in Amazon S3 or Amazon S3 table buckets, registered in the AWS Glue…

Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake

Amazon Redshift now supports querying Amazon S3 data lake tables located in a different AWS Region. With enhanced VPC routing, data lake query traffic between Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift stays within your own VPC.

Amazon Redshift simplifies access to secure logging with federated permissions

Amazon Redshift now makes it easier to troubleshoot and audit queries on data protected by federated permissions with fine-grained access control (FGAC).

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region.

Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters

Amazon Redshift rg.large instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, now support single-node clusters. Single-node support for rg.large clusters is available on P204 or later patch versions.

Amazon Redshift now supports Apache Iceberg v3 tables

Amazon Redshift now supports reading from and writing to Apache Iceberg v3 tables in your data lake. Apache Iceberg is an open table format, and its v3 release adds several new features.

Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing

Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR).

Amazon Redshift integrates with Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse management

Amazon Redshift now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling you to build, query, troubleshoot, and migrate to Amazon Redshift data warehouses and data lakes directly from AI agents such as Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor.

Amazon Redshift streaming can now ingest 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Redshift now supports Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) record sizes up to 10 MiB—a 10x increase from the previous 1 MiB limit—fully matching the expanded maximum record size in Amazon KDS.

Amazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration

Amazon Redshift now supports long-term retention for system table data through native integration with Amazon S3 Tables.

Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling of streaming ingestion workloads from Amazon Kinesis data streams

Amazon Redshift, starting with patch P203, supports concurrency scaling for refreshes of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)-connected streaming materialized views (MVs).

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Redshift now offers rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes for RG instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions.

Amazon Redshift RG large and 12xlarge instances now available on the trailing track

Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track. Starting today, rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance types are available for customers running workloads on the trailing track on patch P202 and onwards.

Amazon Redshift Data API announces long polling, session management, and flexible batch execution

Amazon Redshift Data API introduces new capabilities that reduce the number of API calls to retrieve SQL statement metadata or results, provide visibility into sessions, and allow batch statements to execute on separate transactions.

Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers All Upfront pricing for 3-year Serverless Reservations

Amazon Redshift announces the availability of All Upfront payment option for 3-year Serverless Reservations, providing up to 50% savings over on-demand rates.

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge.

Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores

Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations when restoring a namespace from a snapshot or recovery point to the same serverless namespace.

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track

Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track. Starting July 7, 2026, rg.4xlarge and rg.xlarge instance types are available for customers running workloads on the trailing track (P201).

Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions.

Amazon Redshift adds Reserved Instance upfront pricing options for RG instances

Amazon Redshift announces the availability of All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances for RG instances. Reserved instances allow customers to benefit from significant savings over on-demand rates.