Amazon Redshift Spectrum now supports ORC and Grok file formats

Posted on: Aug 23, 2017

You can now leverage Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query data stored in Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) and Grok file formats. Amazon Redshift Spectrum also supports multiple other open file formats, including Avro, CSV, Parquet, RCFile, RegexSerDe, SequenceFile, TextFile, and TSV. For more information, see supported file formats in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) Regions. To learn more, please visit aws.amazon.com/redshift/spectrum.