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Published inFeb 2021
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
Hamid Mahmood Qureshi
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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications.
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Hammad Sharif
Hammad Sharif
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Hammad Sharif

Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning. He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles. Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
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Configuring Snowflake access to private S3 buckets

This recipe walks you through configuring access to private or restricted S3 buckets. The access configuration is a necessary step before you can load data from cloud storage, specifically from cloud storage buckets that are not public.

Getting ready

By now, you must have already created an S3 bucket that you intend to use to load data from the cloud to Snowflake. You should also have the privileges required to create a new Identity and Access Management (IAM) user and configure security settings in AWS. This recipe does not cover AWS configurations as it is assumed that you are well versed in managing AWS accounts and S3 storage. You should also know which AWS region your Snowflake instance is located in. You will require access to the ACCOUNTADMIN role in Snowflake as well.

How to do it…

Let's go through the steps required to set up a private or restricted S3 bucket for use with Snowflake:

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Published in: Feb 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800560611

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Hamid Mahmood Qureshi

Hamid Qureshi is a senior cloud and data warehouse professional with almost two decades of total experience, having architected, designed, and led the implementation of several data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. He has extensive experience and certifications across various data analytics platforms, ranging from Teradata, Oracle, and Hadoop to modern, cloud-based tools such as Snowflake. Having worked extensively with traditional technologies, combined with his knowledge of modern platforms, he has accumulated substantial practical expertise in data warehousing and analytics in Snowflake, which he has subsequently captured in his publications.
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Hammad Sharif

Hammad Sharif is an experienced data architect with more than a decade of experience in the information domain, covering governance, warehousing, data lakes, streaming data, and machine learning. He has worked with a leading data warehouse vendor for a decade as part of a professional services organization, advising customers in telco, retail, life sciences, and financial industries located in Asia, Europe, and Australia during presales and post-sales implementation cycles. Hammad holds an MSc. in computer science and has published conference papers in the domains of machine learning, sensor networks, software engineering, and remote sensing.
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