AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports Current and Trailing Tracks for release updates

Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available on two different release cycles – Current Track and Trailing Track. With the Current Track you will get the most up-to-date certified release version with the latest features, security updates, and performance enhancements. With the Trailing Track you will be on the previous certified release. With the Trailing Track feature, you now have the option to run a subset of Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroups in the Amazon Redshift Serverless Trailing Track to allow for a few weeks of integration validation in your environment before adopting the release across all your workgroups.

Each Amazon Redshift Serverless release undergoes thorough testing by our QA and security teams. By default, all Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroups are created in the Current Track to take advantage of the most up-to-date certified release. Amazon Redshift Serverless Trailing track provides you additional diligence and time needed for testing and development environments to evaluate the Current Track, before adopting the Current Track for your mission-critical workloads in production. The Trailing track ensures maximum stability, making it ideal for mission-critical workloads in production environments. With a few clicks in the Amazon Redshift console, you can choose the Current Track or Trailing Track.

Amazon Redshift Serverless Current and Trailing Tracks support is available in all commercial AWS regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is available.

Refer to this documentation to learn more about the Current and Trailing Tracks in Amazon Redshift Serverless.

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