CARTO has announced the release of Raster support in its platform, allowing users to work with raster data directly inside their cloud data lakehouse. This marks a significant milestone in spatial data analysis, providing unparalleled scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for industries such as telecommunications, insurance, and climate analysis that rely heavily on raster data. With this release, CARTO becomes the first platform to support all aspects of raster needs, including ETL, analysis, and visualization, eliminating the need for multiple external tools or systems. The new feature is designed to address the limitations of existing cloud-based processing, which often required specialist GIS and earth observation tools to transform raster data into insights. By integrating Raster support natively within the cloud data lakehouse, CARTO aims to provide users with a seamless experience for working with raster data, minimizing risks, time, and cost savings, while also paving the way for new open data standards like Parquet raster in the cloud.