Amazon Redshift announces support for History Mode for zero-ETL integrations

Today, Amazon Redshift announces the launch of history mode for zero-ETL integrations. This new feature enables you to build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from databases, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. History mode simplifies the process of tracking and analyzing historical data changes, allowing you to gain valuable insights from your data's evolution over time.

With history mode, you can easily run advanced analytics on historical data, build lookback reports, and perform trend analysis across multiple zero-ETL data sources, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. By preserving the complete history of data changes without maintaining duplicate copies across data sources, history mode helps organizations meet data storage requirements while significantly reducing storage needs and operational costs. History mode is available for both existing and new integrations. You can selectively enable historical tracking for specific tables within your integration for enhanced flexibility in your data analysis.

To learn more and get started with zero-ETL integration, visit the getting started guides for Amazon Redshift. For more information on history mode and its benefits, visit the documentation.