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Amazon Redshift long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables is now available in additional AWS Regions

Published
October 15, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/10/redshift-long-term-system-table-retention-expansion/

Amazon Redshift

Long-term retention for system table data is now available in additional AWS Regions. This feature allows you to configure retention beyond the current 7-day limit to meet compliance, auditing, and observability requirements.

  • What’s new: System table data retention configured beyond 7 days.
  • Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Canada West (Calgary), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
  • Format: Data is stored in Apache Iceberg format.
  • Querying: Queryable through Redshift, Amazon Athena, DuckDB, or any Iceberg-compatible engine.
  • Instances: Available for Amazon Redshift Provisioned RG and RA3 instances and Amazon Redshift Serverless.
  • Benefits: Eliminates the need for custom ETL pipelines and provides consolidated observability across multiple data warehouses.

What to do

  • Enable long-term retention for your Redshift system table data.
  • Query data using Redshift, Amazon Athena, DuckDB, or any Iceberg-compatible engine.
  • Build observability dashboards using AWS services or third-party tools.

Source: AWS release notes




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