Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 10 additional AWS regions

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling Availability

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Mexico (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions.

New Features

With the Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling feature, you can now support thousands of concurrent users and concurrent queries, with consistently fast query performance. Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, allowing for increased concurrency to process queries with minimal wait time.

What to do

• Set the Concurrency Scaling Mode to Auto in your Amazon Web Services Management Console.
• Allocate Concurrency Scaling usage to specific user groups and workloads.
• Control the number of Concurrency Scaling clusters that can be used.
• Monitor Amazon CloudWatch performance and usage metrics.

Amazon Redshift customers with an active Redshift cluster earn up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits, which is sufficient for the concurrency needs of most customers. Concurrency scaling enables you to specify usage control, providing customers with predictable month-to-month costs, even during periods of fluctuating analytical demand.

To learn more about concurrency scaling including regional-availability, see our documentation and pricing page.