Amazon Redshift Introduces Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETL

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling and Auto-Copy Enhancements

Amazon Redshift has introduced general availability for concurrency scaling support, auto-copy, and zero-ETL, improving data ingestion performance. This feature set combines auto-copy's seamless data ingestion from Amazon S3 with zero-ETL's near real-time data replication from operational and transactional databases, along with the elasticity of concurrency scaling.

These enhancements are particularly beneficial for high-volume, time-sensitive data operations. Auto-copy automatically monitors S3 buckets and loads new data files, while zero-ETL replicates data in near real-time. Concurrency scaling automatically adds compute capacity to handle increased read and write queries, ensuring faster data ingestion without performance compromise during peak periods.

What to do

• Implement concurrency scaling, auto-copy, and zero-ETL to optimize data ingestion workflows.

Source: AWS release notes

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