General Availability of Aqua for Amazon Redshift

Based on the documentation this seems to be very limited in the queries it can accelerate, just LIKE and SIMILAR TO

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cl...

Disclaimer : I work for Oracle.

Aqua looks very similar to Oracle's Smart Scan, which is available on Exadata [1] [2].

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/infrastructure/what-is-smart-scan

[2] https://blogs.oracle.com/smartscan-deep-dive/