Amazon Redshift now scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloads
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This article announces that Amazon Redshift now extends concurrency scaling to support high-volume data ingestion workloads, enabling automatic scaling for COPY queries from Amazon S3.
- Concurrency scaling now supports COPY queries for Parquet and ORC file formats from S3
- Eliminates ingestion bottlenecks during traffic spikes and peak demand periods
- Automatically provisions additional compute capacity without manual cluster resizing
- Zero operational overhead with automatic enable/disable based on demand
- Generally available across all AWS commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US)
- Works with both Amazon Redshift Serverless and provisioned data warehouses
In summary, Amazon Redshift now automatically scales data ingestion workloads, eliminating the need to choose between ingestion speed and query performance during peak demand.
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