Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for working with semi-structured data stored in the SUPER data type. The new functions include ARRAY_CONTAINS, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_EXCEPT, ARRAY_INTERSECTION, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_POSITIONS, ARRAY_SORT, ARRAY_UNION, and ARRAYS_OVERLAP, enabling you to search, compare, sort, and…

Amazon Redshift now supports templates for the COPY command, allowing you to store and reuse frequently used COPY parameters. This new feature enables you to create reusable templates that contain commonly utilized formatting parameters, eliminating the need to manually specify…

Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves datashare permissions when you restore a snapshot to the same namespace, simplifying data sharing workflows and reducing administrative overhead. Previously, restoring a serverless namespace from a snapshot required administrators to manually re-grant datashare permissions to…

Amazon OpenSearch Service, expands availability of OR2 and OM2, OpenSearch Optimized Instance family to 12 additional regions. The OR2 instance delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput compared to previous OR1 instances and 70% over R7g instances. The OM2 instance…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance…