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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

You're reading from  Amazon Redshift Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569683
Pages 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Shruti Worlikar Shruti Worlikar
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Thiyagarajan Arumugam Thiyagarajan Arumugam
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Harshida Patel Harshida Patel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Amazon Redshift 2. Chapter 2: Data Management 3. Chapter 3: Loading and Unloading Data 4. Chapter 4: Data Pipelines 5. Chapter 5: Scalable Data Orchestration for Automation 6. Chapter 6: Data Authorization and Security 7. Chapter 7: Performance Optimization 8. Chapter 8: Cost Optimization 9. Chapter 9: Lake House Architecture 10. Chapter 10: Extending Redshift's Capabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Using IAM authentication to generate database user credentials

Amazon Redshift allows you to programmatically generate temporary database user credentials that can be used for automated scripts connect to the cluster. Using the get-cluster-credentials command in the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and the GetClusterCredentials in the API, you can generate the temporary credentials that can then be used in the JDBC and ODBC options.

Getting ready

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

  • An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift and AWS IAM
  • An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS Region eu-west-1; we will reference the cluster ID as [Your-Redshift_Cluster]
  • Amazon Redshift cluster masteruser credentials
  • Access to any SQL interface such as a SQL client or the Amazon Redshift Query Editor
  • The AWS CLI configured on your local client

How to do it

In this recipe, we will generate temporary credentials to connect to the Amazon...

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