Document history - Amazon Redshift
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Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting November 1, 2025. If you would like to use Python UDFs, create the UDFs prior to that date. Existing Python UDFs will continue to function as normal. For more information, see the blog post .

Document history

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The following table describes the important documentation changes to the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide.

Change Description Release date

Documentation update

Updated the guide to reflect Query Editor v2 managed policy changes and improved serverless namespace and workgroup access permissions. February 21, 2024

Documentation update

Updated screenshots and procedures to reflect latest console interface improvements and Query Editor v2 enhancements. March 11, 2023

New feature

Updated the guide to include Amazon Redshift Serverless getting started procedures and workflows. Added comprehensive section on creating and managing serverless data warehouses. July 12, 2022

Documentation update

Updated the guide to reflect Query Editor v2 as the primary query interface, replacing references to the legacy query editor. February 2022

Documentation update

Updated the guide to include new sections about getting started with common database tasks, querying your data lake, querying data on remote sources, sharing data, and training machine learning models with Amazon Redshift data. June 30, 2021

New feature

Updated the guide to describe the new sample load procedure. June 4, 2021

Documentation update

Updated the guide to remove the original Amazon Redshift console and improve step flow. August 14, 2020

New console

Updated the guide to describe the new Amazon Redshift console.

November 11, 2019

New feature

Updated the guide to describe the quick-launch cluster procedure.

August 10, 2018

New feature

Updated the guide to launch clusters from the Amazon Redshift dashboard.

July 28, 2015

New feature

Updated the guide to use new node type names.

June 9, 2015

Documentation update

Updated screenshots and procedure for configuring VPC security groups.

April 30, 2015

Documentation update

Updated screenshots and procedures to match the current console.

November 12, 2014

Documentation update

Moved loading data from Amazon S3 information into its own section and moved next steps section into the final step for better discoverability.

May 13, 2014

Documentation update

Removed the Welcome page and incorporated the content into the main Getting Started page.

March 14, 2014

Documentation update

This is a new release of the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide that addresses customer feedback and service updates.

March 14, 2014

New guide

This is the first release of the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide.

February 14, 2013