Managing federated authentication
Amazon Redshift allows easy integration of multiple Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Okta, Ping Identity, AWS SSO, and any SAML v2. You can manage the authentication and authorization of the users and objects using the IdPs without the need to maintain local database users. This provides seamless extension of your corporate policies to Amazon Redshift and a convenient way to govern them centrally. For example, users just use their corporate credentials to get into Amazon Redshift. In addition, Amazon Redshift also supports multi-factor authentication using the federation to provide additional security when authenticating.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will need the following setup:
- An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift and AWS IAM
- An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in AWS Region
eu-west-1
- Amazon Redshift cluster masteruser credentials...