Amazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration
Amazon Redshift ยท 2026-08-20
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Technical Details
| Affected Versions | Provisioned RG and RA3 instances, Serverless |
|---|---|
| Regions | us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, af-south-1, ap-east-1, ap-northeast-3, ap-northeast-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-south-1, ap-south-2, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-southeast-3, ap-southeast-4, ca-central-1, eu-central-1, eu-central-2, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, il-central-1, sa-east-1 |
| Cost Impact | Neutral |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Deploy the new long-term system table retention feature to eliminate custom ETL pipelines, reduce toil, and enable automated replication of system table data to S3 in Apache Iceberg format.
For Platform Teams
Adopt the new long-term system table retention feature to simplify architecture, reduce operational toil, and enable cross-warehouse observability and analysis with minimal effort.
For Executives
Evaluate the new long-term system table retention feature to enhance compliance, auditing, and observability, reducing operational overhead and enabling cross-warehouse analysis without custom ETL pipelines.
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