Amazon Redshift now supports the Zstandard high data compression encoding and two new aggregate functions

Amazon Redshift now supports Zstandard (ZSTD) column compression encoding, which delivers better data compression thereby reducing the amount of storage and I/O needed. With the addition of ZSTD, Amazon Redshift now offers seven compression encodings to choose from depending on your dataset.

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