Technical requirements
Here are the technical requirements to complete the recipes in this chapter:
- Access to the AWS Management Console.
- AWS administrators should create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user by following Recipe 1– Creating an IAM User, in the Appendix. This IAM user will be deployed to perform some of the recipes in this chapter.
- AWS administrators should create an IAM role by following Recipe 3 – Creating an IAM Role for an AWS service in the Appendix. This IAM role will be deployed to perform some of the recipes in this chapter.
- AWS administrators should deploy the AWS CloudFormation template (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Amazon-Redshift-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter05/chapter_5_CFN.yaml) to create two IAM policies:
a. An IAM policy attached to the IAM user that will give the user access to Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon...