Microsoft is updating our Amazon Redshift connector to use the new Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver.
What’s new and why upgrade
Microsoft and Amazon Redshift have been collaborating to provide our shared customers with an industry-leading, improved security, connectivity experience. The new driver will ensure compatibility, stability, security, and support for your data connectivity. This improvement aligns with Microsoft’s continued commitment to enhancing and providing secure data connectivity solutions for customers, enabling the mitigation of data connectivity threats.
To support this initiative, existing connectors within Data Factory are transitioning to the Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver for all Redshift connectors; the new connector is rolling out automatically across regions.
This improvement will benefit connectivity between Redshift and various Microsoft products, ranging from Fabric Copyjob, Fabric Copy pipeline, and Dataflows Gen2 to Semantic models, Power BI Desktop, Gateway, and more.
Key capabilities in this new connector include (and are not limited to):
- Metadata visibility for external objects.
- Support for Redshift Data Sharing reads.
- Enhanced support for new features launched in Amazon Redshift.
- Ability to audit connections between Microsoft products and Amazon Redshift.
Rollout details
The new connector is rolling out automatically across regions. To be best prepared, we recommend that customers who want to implement and test the connector sooner should enable the preview features.
To learn more, please reference the Microsoft Redshift documentation.
Microsoft Employee