Document history

The following table describes the important changes for the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide.

Latest documentation update: June 30, 2021

Change	Description	Release date
Documentation update	Updated the guide to include new sections about getting started with common database tasks, querying your data lake, querying data on remote sources, sharing data, and training machine learning models with Amazon Redshift data.	June 30, 2021
New feature	Updated the guide to describe the new sample load procedure.	June 4, 2021
Documentation update	Updated the guide to remove the original Amazon Redshift console and improve step flow.	August 14, 2020
New console	Updated the guide to describe the new Amazon Redshift console.	November 11, 2019
New feature	Updated the guide to describe the quick-launch cluster procedure.	August 10, 2018
New feature	Updated the guide to launch clusters from the Amazon Redshift dashboard.	July 28, 2015
New feature	Updated the guide to use new node type names.	June 9, 2015
Documentation update	Updated screenshots and procedure for configuring VPC security groups.	April 30, 2015
Documentation update	Updated screenshots and procedures to match the current console.	November 12, 2014
Documentation update	Moved loading data from Amazon S3 information into its own section and moved next steps section into the final step for better discoverability.	May 13, 2014
Documentation update	Removed the Welcome page and incorporated the content into the main Getting Started page.	March 14, 2014
Documentation update	This is a new release of the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide that addresses customer feedback and service updates.	March 14, 2014
New guide	This is the first release of the Amazon Redshift Getting Started Guide.	February 14, 2013