Amazon Redshift Expands SUPER Data Type to Store Strings up to 16 Million Bytes
AWS, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Amazon Redshift now allows individual strings up to 16 million bytes in SUPER data types, up from 65,535 bytes.
Amazon Redshift now supports individual strings of up to 16 million bytes within SUPER data types, up from the previous 65,535-byte limit.
After opting in through a database parameter, the change applies when ingesting JSON, Parquet, text and CSV files and during ELT processing.
This lets customers load long content such as contracts or terms and conditions without complex pre-load transformations and query it with SQL or PartiQL.
Functions including JSON_PARSE, CONCAT and LISTAGG can now handle strings up to 16 million bytes, and the feature is available in all Redshift Regions, including GovCloud.