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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By : Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel
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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By: Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel

Overview of this book

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale AWS cloud data warehousing service. It enables you to build new data warehouse workloads on AWS and migrate on-premises traditional data warehousing platforms to Redshift. This book on Amazon Redshift starts by focusing on Redshift architecture, showing you how to perform database administration tasks on Redshift. You'll then learn how to optimize your data warehouse to quickly execute complex analytic queries against very large datasets. Because of the massive amount of data involved in data warehousing, designing your database for analytical processing lets you take full advantage of Redshift's columnar architecture and managed services. As you advance, you’ll discover how to deploy fully automated and highly scalable extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, which help minimize the operational efforts that you have to invest in managing regular ETL pipelines and ensure the timely and accurate refreshing of your data warehouse. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of Redshift use cases, data ingestion, data management, security, and scaling so that you can build a scalable data warehouse platform. By the end of this Redshift book, you'll be able to implement a Redshift-based data analytics solution and have understood the best practice solutions to commonly faced problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Recipe 2 – Storing database credentials using Amazon Secrets Manager

You can use the following steps to create an IAM user:

  1. To create the secrets, navigate to the AWS Secrets Manager dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/.
  2. Choose Store a new secret.
  3. Then, choose Credentials for Redshift Cluster.
  4. Specify the username and password.
  5. Set the encryption key to DefaultEncryptionKey.
  6. Select the Redshift cluster from the list that this secret will access, and click Next.
  7. Specify the name for the secrets, keep the defaults, and click Next.
  8. Keep the defaults for the configure automatic rotation, and click Next.
  9. Review and choose Store.
  10. Capture the secret store ARN.