To get the most out of this book

You will need access to an AWS account to perform all the recipes in this book. You will need either administrator access to the AWS account or to work with an administrator to help create the IAM user, roles, and policies as listed in the different chapters. All the data needed in the setup is provided as steps in recipes, and the Amazon S3 bucket is hosted in the Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) AWS region. It is preferable to use the Europe (Ireland) AWS region to execute all the recipes. If you need to run the recipes in a different region, you will need to copy the data from the source bucket (s3://packt-redshift-cookbook/) to an Amazon S3 bucket in the desired AWS region, and use that in your recipes instead.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.