Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region

Amazon Redshift Serverless Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Amazon Redshift Serverless, a service that allows you to run and scale analytics without managing data warehouse clusters, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. This service enables data analysts, developers, and data scientists to gain insights from data quickly. It automatically provisions and scales data warehouse capacity to ensure high performance for analytics.

You only pay for the compute used for the duration of your workloads on a per-second basis. This service simplifies the process without requiring changes to your existing applications.

Key Features

• Automatic provisioning and scaling of data warehouse capacity
• Direct querying of data in open formats like Apache Parquet and Apache Iceberg in Amazon S3 data lakes
• Unified billing for queries on any data source
• No need for manual configurations like node types, node count, workload management, and scaling

What to do

• Create databases, schemas, and tables
• Load data from Amazon S3
• Access data using Amazon Redshift data shares
• Restore an existing Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster snapshot

To get started, visit the Amazon Redshift Serverless feature page, user documentation, and API Reference.

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