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Friday, November 6, 2026

Amazon Redshift Now Handles Massive Strings in SUPER Data Types

Amazon Redshift just bumped up the string size limit in SUPER data types from 65KB to a whopping 16 million bytes—perfect for storing hefty documents like contracts without preprocessing headaches. The feature works across all AWS Regions with JSON, PARQUET, TEXT, and CSV files, letting you query large strings directly using SQL and PartiQL.

source: [aws/whats-new]