Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon Redshift.
Information as of November 3, 2026.
Amazon Redshift now offers automated cross-region snapshot copying, enabling automatic backups of provisioned clusters or serverless workgroups to chosen target AWS regions without manual intervention
AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Redshift, allowing you to include Redshift in your restore testing plans alongside other AWS resources to automate and verify backup restores.
Amazon Redshift now offers long-term retention for system table data via Amazon S3 Tables in additional regions, meeting compliance, auditing, and observability needs.
Amazon Redshift now supports creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views, storing results in S3 for efficient querying across multiple engines
Amazon Redshift now enables querying Amazon S3 data lake tables located in different AWS Regions directly, eliminating the need for data copying or replication and simplifying global analytics and cross-Region reporting.
Amazon Redshift now allows data owners to grant specific identities unredacted secure logging records across multiple warehouses using the new DEBUG permission, maintaining compliance without disabling secure logging.
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, delivering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower price per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.
Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters, offering a cost-effective option for smaller workloads that do not require high availability
Amazon Redshift supports IAM Identity Center authentication and enhanced VPC routing, enabling single sign-on with corporate credentials and VPC-based traffic paths for all operations
Amazon Redshift now integrates with the AWS Agent Toolkit, enabling AI agents like Claude Code and Kiro to build, query, troubleshoot, and migrate Redshift data warehouses and data lakes directly. It uses the AWS MCP server and includes curated Redshift skills for improved task completion.
Amazon Redshift extends support for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams record sizes up to 10MiB, enabling larger payloads and simplifying ingestion pipelines
Amazon Redshift now automatically stores system table data in Amazon S3 Tables, enabling retention beyond the 7-day limit and cross-warehouse analysis
Amazon Redshift introduces concurrency scaling for refreshes of streaming materialized views connected to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, allowing main clusters or workgroups to be freed for higher-priority tasks
Amazon Redshift now offers new RG instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US), improving performance and reducing costs. Existing clusters can be resized or upgraded to these instances.
Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance at 30% lower cost per vCPU
Amazon Redshift Data API adds long polling to reduce API calls for SQL metadata or results, session management for visibility into active sessions, and flexible batch execution allowing each statement in a batch to execute independently. These enhancements improve efficiency for ETL pipelines and administrative scripts.
Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces an all-upfront payment option for 3-year Serverless Reservations, offering up to 50% savings over on-demand rates
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These instances deliver the same Graviton-powered performance benefits as existing RG instances, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance than previous-generation RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU.
Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations when restoring a namespace from a snapshot to the same serverless namespace, eliminating manual reconfiguration and reducing data ingestion gaps
Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.
Amazon Redshift RG instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU than previous RA3 instances
Amazon Redshift now offers All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances on RG instances, enhancing cost optimization flexibility
Amazon Redshift expands general availability of RG instances powered by AWS Graviton processors to three new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to other data warehouses.
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