Technical requirements
Here are the technical requirements in order 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 section. 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/Chapter04/chapter_4_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 Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose...