Amazon Redshift announces hands-off automated cross-region backups
Amazon Redshift announces automated cross-region snapshot copy for Amazon Redshift. You can now have your Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster or serverless workgroup automatically backed up to the target AWS region(s) you choose.
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Monte Carlo's Terraform provider is now on the OpenTofu registry
Monte Carlo has published its Terraform provider and agent modules to the OpenTofu registry, enabling users to manage Monte Carlo infrastructure as code using OpenTofu.
REST API v2 (Public preview): onboard Monte Carlo from your AI tool, Terraform or a script
Monte Carlo's REST API v2 is now in public preview, enabling automated onboarding and deployment of collection agents via scripts, Terraform, or AI tools.
Gemini-powered Explore summaries in Looker are generally available
The ability to generate summaries of Looker Explores using Gemini assistance is now generally available.
Dashboard relationships are now generally available
Dashboard relationships, which enable multi-fact data models in AI/BI dashboards, are now generally available.
Looker bullet chart visualization is generally available
The bullet chart visualization type is now generally available in Looker, allowing users to evaluate metric performance against targets and thresholds.
Xero connector is available in Beta
The managed Xero connector is now available in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of accounting data.
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AWS Backup adds restore testing support for Amazon Redshift
AWS Backup now supports automated restore testing for Amazon Redshift, allowing users to verify backups and measure recovery time objectives.
Amazon Redshift adds support for creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views
Amazon Redshift now supports the creation and refresh of Apache Iceberg materialized views. Materialized views pre-compute expensive joins and aggregations once and store the results in an Apache Iceberg table in Amazon S3 or Amazon S3 table buckets, registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake
Amazon Redshift now supports querying Amazon S3 data lake tables located in a different AWS Region. With enhanced VPC routing, data lake query traffic between Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift stays within your own VPC.
Amazon Redshift simplifies access to secure logging with federated permissions
Amazon Redshift now makes it easier to troubleshoot and audit queries on data protected by federated permissions with fine-grained access control (FGAC). Using the new DEBUG permission, data owners can let specific identities see unredacted secure logging records across multiple Redshift data warehouses.