User guide

Release DateDescriptionChange
January 26, 2015Added a troubleshooting topic about an issue where
queries fail to complete in the SQL client tool and the
cluster when a transaction encounters an error. For more
information, see Queries Appear to Hang in the Client and
the Cluster (p. 177).
Documentation Up-
date
January 16, 2015Added a new example policy that demonstrates granting
permission to common AWS service actions and resources
on which Amazon Redshift relies. For more information,
see Example Policies for Amazon Redshift (p. 121).
Documentation Up-
date
January 16, 2015Updated guidance about setting the maximum transmission
unit (MTU) to disable TCP/IP jumbo frames. For more in-
formation, see Supported Platforms to Launch Your
Cluster (p. 9) and Queries Appear to Hang in the Client
and Do Not Reach the Cluster (p. 176).
Documentation Up-
date
January 13, 2015Revised the content about the wlm_json_configura-
tion parameter, and provided example syntax to configure
this parameter by using the AWS CLI on the Linux, Mac
OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. For
more information, see Configuring Workload Manage-
ment (p. 59).
Documentation Up-
date
January 8, 2015Added missing event notifications and descriptions. For
more information, see Amazon Redshift Event Categories
and Event Messages (p. 204).
Documentation Up-
date
November 21, 2014Updated guidance about IAM policies for Amazon Redshift
actions and resources. Revised the section to improve
organization and clarity. For more information, see Con-
trolling Access to Amazon Redshift Resources (p. 115).
Documentation Up-
date
November 12, 2014This release of Amazon Redshift introduces the ability to
encrypt clusters using encryption keys from AWS Key
Management Service (AWS KMS). AWS KMS combines
secure, highly available hardware and software to provide
a key management system scaled for the cloud. For more
information about AWS KMS and encryption options for
Amazon Redshift, see Amazon Redshift Database Encryp-
tion (p. 98) and Managing Clusters Using the Console
(p. 13).
New Feature
November 4, 2014This release of Amazon Redshift introduces the ability to
tag resources, such as clusters and snapshots. Tags en-
able you to provide user-defined metadata to categorize
your billing reports based on cost allocation, and to help
you better identify resources at a glance. For more inform-
ation, see Tagging Resources in Amazon Redshift (p.240).
New Feature
October 30, 2014Increased the maximum node limit to 128 nodes for
dw1.8xlarge and dw2.8xlarge node sizes. For more inform-
ation, see About Clusters and Nodes (p. 6).
New Feature
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