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Quotas and limits in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift quotas

Amazon Redshift has quotas that limit the use of several resources in your AWS account per AWS Region. There is a default value for each quota and some quotas are adjustable. For adjustable quotas, you can request an increase for your AWS account in an AWS Region by submitting an Amazon Redshift Limit Increase Form.

Quota name AWS default value Adjustable Description

AWS accounts you can authorize to restore a snapshot per snapshot

20

No

The maximum number of AWS accounts that you can authorize to restore a snapshot, per snapshot.

AWS accounts you can authorize to restore a snapshot per AWS KMS key

100

No

The maximum number of AWS accounts that you can authorize to restore a snapshot, per AWS KMS key. That is, if you have 10 snapshots that are encrypted with a single KMS key, then you can authorize 10 AWS accounts to restore each snapshot, or other combinations that add up to 100 accounts and do not exceed 20 accounts for each snapshot.

Cluster IAM roles for Amazon Redshift to access other AWS services

10

No

The maximum number of IAM roles that you can associate with a cluster to authorize Amazon Redshift to access other AWS services for the user that owns the cluster and IAM roles.

Concurrency level (query slots) for all user-defined manual WLM queues

50

No

The maximum query slots for all user-defined queues defined by manual workload management.

Concurrency scaling clusters

10

Yes

The maximum number of concurrency scaling clusters.

DC2 nodes in a cluster

128

Yes

The maximum number of DC2 nodes that you can allocate to a cluster. For more information about node limits for each node type, see Clusters and nodes in Amazon Redshift.

DS2 nodes in a cluster

128

Yes

The maximum number of DS2 nodes that you can allocate to a cluster. For more information about node limits for each node type, see Clusters and nodes in Amazon Redshift.

Event subscriptions

20

Yes

The maximum number of event subscriptions for this account in the current AWS Region.

Nodes

200

Yes

The maximum number of nodes across all database instances for this account in the current AWS Region.

Parameter groups

20

No

The maximum number of parameter groups for this account in the current AWS Region.

RA3 nodes in a cluster

128

Yes

The maximum number of RA3 nodes that you can allocate to a cluster. For more information about node limits for each node type, see Clusters and nodes in Amazon Redshift.

Reserved nodes

200

Yes

The maximum number of reserved nodes for this account in the current AWS Region.

Schemas in each database per cluster

9,900

No

The maximum number of schemas that you can create in each database, per cluster. However, pg_temp_* schemas do not count towards this quota.

Security groups

20

Yes

The maximum number of security groups for this account in the current AWS Region.

Single row size when loading by COPY

4

No

The maximum size (in MB) of a single row when loading by using the COPY command.

Snapshots

20

Yes

The maximum number of user snapshots for this account in the current AWS Region.

Subnet groups

20

Yes

The maximum number of subnet groups for this account in the current AWS Region.

Subnets in a subnet group

20

Yes

The maximum number of subnets for a subnet group.

Tables for large cluster node type

9,900

No

The maximum number of tables for the large cluster node type. This limit includes temporary tables. Temporary tables include user-defined temporary tables and temporary tables created by Amazon Redshift during query processing or system maintenance. Views aren't included in this limit.

Tables for xlarge cluster node type

9,900

No

The maximum number of tables for the xlarge cluster node type. This limit includes temporary tables. Temporary tables include user-defined temporary tables and temporary tables created by Amazon Redshift during query processing or system maintenance. Views aren't included in this limit.

Tables for 4xlarge cluster node type

20,000

No

The maximum number of tables for the 4xlarge cluster node type.

Tables for 8xlarge cluster node type

20,000

No

The maximum number of tables for the 8xlarge cluster node type. This limit includes temporary tables. Temporary tables include user-defined temporary tables and temporary tables created by Amazon Redshift during query processing or system maintenance. Views aren't included in this limit.

Tables for 16xlarge cluster node type

20,000

No

The maximum number of tables for the 16xlarge cluster node type. This limit includes temporary tables. Temporary tables include user-defined temporary tables and temporary tables created by Amazon Redshift during query processing or system maintenance. Views aren't included in this limit.

User-defined databases in a cluster

60

No

The maximum number of user-defined databases that you can create per cluster.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum quotas and limits

Amazon Redshift Spectrum has the following quotas and limits:

  • The maximum number of databases per AWS account when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog. For this value, see AWS Glue service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

  • The maximum number of tables per database when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog. For this value, see AWS Glue service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

  • The maximum number of partitions per table when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog. For this value, see AWS Glue service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

  • The maximum number of partitions per AWS account when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog. For this value, see AWS Glue service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

  • The maximum number of columns for external tables when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog, 1,598 when pseudocolumns are enabled, and 1,600 when pseudocolumns aren't enabled.

  • The maximum size of a string value in an ION or JSON file when using an AWS Glue Data Catalog is 16 KB.

  • You can add a maximum of 100 partitions using a single ALTER TABLE statement.

  • All S3 data must be located in the same AWS Region as the Amazon Redshift cluster.

  • Timestamps in ION and JSON must use ISO8601 format.

  • External compression of ORC files is not supported.

  • Text, OpenCSV, and Regex SERDEs do not support octal delimiters larger than '\177'.

  • You must specify a predicate on the partition column to avoid reads from all partitions.

    For example, the following predicate filters on the column ship_dtm, but doesn't apply the filter to the partition column ship_yyyymm:

    WHERE ship_dtm > '2018-04-01'.

    To skip unneeded partitions you need to add a predicate WHERE ship_yymmm = '201804'. This predicate limits read operations to the partition \ship_yyyymm=201804\.

These limits don't apply to an Apache Hive metastore.

Naming constraints

The following table describes naming constraints within Amazon Redshift.

Cluster identifier

  • A cluster identifier must contain only lowercase characters.

  • It must contain 1–63 alphanumeric characters or hyphens.

  • Its first character must be a letter.

  • It cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

  • It must be unique for all clusters within an AWS account.

Database name

  • A database name must contain 1–64 alphanumeric characters.

  • It must contain only lowercase letters.

  • It cannot be a reserved word. For a list of reserved words, see Reserved words in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

Master user name

  • A master user name must contain only lowercase characters.

  • It must contain 1–128 alphanumeric characters.

  • Its first character must be a letter.

  • It cannot be a reserved word. For a list of reserved words, see Reserved words in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

Master password

  • A master password must contain 8–64 characters.

  • It must contain at least one uppercase letter.

  • It must contain at least one lowercase letter.

  • It must contain one number.

  • It can use any ASCII characters with ASCII codes 33–126, except ' (single quote), " (double quote), \, /, or @.

Parameter group name

  • A parameter group name must contain 1–255 alphanumeric characters or hyphens.

  • It must contain only lowercase characters.

  • Its first character must be a letter.

  • It can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Cluster security group name

  • A cluster security group name must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters or hyphens.

  • It must contain only lowercase characters.

  • It must not be Default.

  • It must be unique for all security groups that are created by your AWS account.

Subnet group name

  • A subnet group name must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters or hyphens.

  • It must contain only lowercase characters.

  • It must not be Default.

  • It must be unique for all security groups that are created by your AWS account.

Cluster snapshot identifier

  • A cluster snapshot identifier must contain no more than 255 alphanumeric characters or hyphens.

  • It must contain only lowercase characters.

  • It must not be Default.

  • It must be unique for all security groups that are created by your AWS account.