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Shruti Worlikar
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Shruti Worlikar is a cloud professional with technical expertise in data lakes and analytics across cloud platforms. Her background has led her to become an expert in on-premises-to-cloud migrations and building cloud-based scalable analytics applications. Shruti earned her bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai University in 2009 and later earned her masters' degree in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University in 2011. Her work history includes work at J.P. Morgan Chase, MicroStrategy, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is currently working in the role of Manager, Analytics Specialist SA at AWS, helping customers to solve real-world analytics business challenges with cloud solutions and working with service teams to deliver real value. Shruti is the DC Chapter Director for the non-profit Women in Big Data (WiBD) and engages with chapter members to build technical and business skills to support their career advancements. Originally from Mumbai, India, Shruti currently resides in Aldie, VA, with her husband and two kids.
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Thiyagarajan Arumugam (Thiyagu) is a principal big data solution architect at AWS, architecting and building solutions at scale using big data to enable data-driven decisions. Prior to AWS, Thiyagu as a data engineer built big data solutions at Amazon, operating some of the largest data warehouses and migrating to and managing them. He has worked on automated data pipelines and built data lake-based platforms to manage data at scale for the customers of his data science and business analyst teams. Thiyagu is a certified AWS Solution Architect (Professional), earned his master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and is the author of several blog posts at AWS on big data. Thiyagu enjoys everything outdoors – running, cycling, ultimate frisbee – and is currently learning to play the Indian classical drum the mrudangam. Thiyagu currently resides in Austin, TX, with his wife and two kids.
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Harshida Patel is a senior analytics specialist solution architect at AWS, enabling customers to build scalable data lake and data warehousing applications using AWS analytical services. She has presented Amazon Redshift deep-dive sessions at re:Invent. Harshida has a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering and a master's in electrical and telecommunication engineering. She has over 15 years of experience architecting and building end-to-end data pipelines in the data management space. In the past, Harshida has worked in the insurance and telecommunication industries. She enjoys traveling and spending quality time with friends and family, and she lives in Virginia with her husband and son.
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Data encryption at rest

Amazon Redshift by default provides you with the option to encrypt the cluster at rest, using an AES algorithm with 256-bit key. Key management can be performed by AWS KMS or your hardware security module. When an Amazon Redshift cluster is encrypted at rest, it provides block-level encryption. When the cluster is encrypted, the metadata and snapshots are also encrypted. This enables you to meet your security requirements to comply with PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR, depending on your needs.

Amazon Redshift uses envelope encryption using a robust four-tier hierarchy of encryption keys: the master key, cluster encryption key (CEK), database encryption key (DEK), and data encryption keys:

Figure 6.5 – Amazon Redshift envelope encryption

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the following setup:

  • An IAM user with access to Amazon KMS and Amazon Redshift
  • Reference to encryption at rest in AWS documentation...
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Shruti Worlikar

Shruti Worlikar is a cloud professional with technical expertise in data lakes and analytics across cloud platforms. Her background has led her to become an expert in on-premises-to-cloud migrations and building cloud-based scalable analytics applications. Shruti earned her bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai University in 2009 and later earned her masters' degree in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University in 2011. Her work history includes work at J.P. Morgan Chase, MicroStrategy, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is currently working in the role of Manager, Analytics Specialist SA at AWS, helping customers to solve real-world analytics business challenges with cloud solutions and working with service teams to deliver real value. Shruti is the DC Chapter Director for the non-profit Women in Big Data (WiBD) and engages with chapter members to build technical and business skills to support their career advancements. Originally from Mumbai, India, Shruti currently resides in Aldie, VA, with her husband and two kids.
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Thiyagarajan Arumugam

Thiyagarajan Arumugam (Thiyagu) is a principal big data solution architect at AWS, architecting and building solutions at scale using big data to enable data-driven decisions. Prior to AWS, Thiyagu as a data engineer built big data solutions at Amazon, operating some of the largest data warehouses and migrating to and managing them. He has worked on automated data pipelines and built data lake-based platforms to manage data at scale for the customers of his data science and business analyst teams. Thiyagu is a certified AWS Solution Architect (Professional), earned his master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and is the author of several blog posts at AWS on big data. Thiyagu enjoys everything outdoors – running, cycling, ultimate frisbee – and is currently learning to play the Indian classical drum the mrudangam. Thiyagu currently resides in Austin, TX, with his wife and two kids.
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Harshida Patel

Harshida Patel is a senior analytics specialist solution architect at AWS, enabling customers to build scalable data lake and data warehousing applications using AWS analytical services. She has presented Amazon Redshift deep-dive sessions at re:Invent. Harshida has a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering and a master's in electrical and telecommunication engineering. She has over 15 years of experience architecting and building end-to-end data pipelines in the data management space. In the past, Harshida has worked in the insurance and telecommunication industries. She enjoys traveling and spending quality time with friends and family, and she lives in Virginia with her husband and son.
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