Relyt Product Announcements and Updates

This page provides updates about Relyt AI-ready Data Cloud. You can find all the newest information and announcements here. We recommend that you check this page regularly to stay up-to-date with the latest news and developments concerning Relyt.

January 2, 2025

Relyt now supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for DW users:

• For DW service unit owners: You can enforce MFA for all users within your DW service unit by using Terraform scripts.

• For DW users: If MFA is not mandated by your DW service unit owner, you have the option to activate MFA for your account individually.

December 2, 2024

Relyt has expanded its Terraform support, allowing you to perform the following operations with Terraform scripts:

• Query endpoints available in a specific region.

• Query DW service units accessible from your cloud accounts, including metadata for each returned DW service unit.

November 11, 2024

Terraform support has been improved. You can now use Terraform to import existing external schemas.

October 21, 2024

You can now use Terraform scripts to manage and query Relyt database objects within a specific DW service unit. The following operations are supported:

• Create databases

• Create external schemas

• List databases and schemas

• Query database and external schema details

October 14, 2024

• Relyt is now support Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). You can enable MFA to further strengthen the security of your cloud accounts.

• You can now configure network policies to define custom IP allowlists or blocklists for your DW service units.

• Relyt now integrates with Terraform's import capabilities, enabling you to use Terraform scripts to import Relyt resources. Please be aware of the following limitations:

  • Import is not available for resources in intermediate states, such as when they are still being created.

  • The domain names of imported DW service units will be displayed in full format. For example, if the domain name testdomain is set during creation, it will appear as testdomain.data.cloud after being imported.

September 26, 2024

• Relyt now offers enhanced support for Delta Lake tables:

  • Support for all primative data types, except binary. For details on supported data types and data type mappings, see Data Type Mappings.

  • Support for time travel queries, allowing you to query the table as it existed at a previous snapshot, even if the data has been modified or deleted.

  • Support for table reading with online schema evolutions are supported.

  • Ability to query the metadata tables for each Delta Lake table.

• The performance of metadata cache has been improved with asynchronous caching support.

September 4, 2024

• You can now integrate with external catalogs (AWS Glue) to enable federated queries on existing Delta Lake tables in your data lake.

• You can now use CREATE EXTERNAL SCHEMA statements to enable access to your data lake services such as AWS Glue and AWS S3 across accounts.

• You can now securely access your data lakes by integrating with AWS Lake Formation, based on your permission management policies existing on AWS.

• Relyt is now compatible with Athena API (including operations start_query_execution and get_query_execution) in AWS Boto3 SDK. You can now:

  • Call start_query_execution to run async queries and save the execution results to the specified S3 path.

  • Call get_query_execution to obtain execution information of the specified query.

• More account management operations can be performed on the Relyt console:

  • The main account can upgrade a subaccount to be the new main account, while itself will be downgraded to a subaccount.

  • The owner of a DW service unit can transfer its ownership to another account.

  • New support for creating private links for both JDBC and Data Access API endpoints, available across AWS regions.

  • Extreme DPS clusters now have restart capabilities.

• Relyt has expanded the Terraform API capabilities to include a broader range of operations, including:

  • Resizing DPS clusters

  • Managing private links

  • Managing DW users' roles in AWS Lake Formation

  • Managing the S3 path for storing execution results

  • Resetting external IDs for AWS access