Querying operational sources using Federated Query
Amazon Redshift Federated Query enables unified analytics across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes. With the Federated Query feature in Amazon Redshift, you can query live data across from Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL databases. For example, you might have an up-to-date customer address data that you might want to join with historical order data to enrich your reports—this can be easily joined up using the Federated Query feature.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will need the following:
- An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift, AWS Secrets Manager, and Amazon RDS.
- An Amazon Redshift cluster deployed in the eu-west-1 AWS Region with the retail sample dataset from Chapter 3, Loading and Unloading Data.
- An Amazon Aurora serverless PostgreSQL database. Create an RDS PostgreSQL cluster (see https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/building-serverless-applications-with-amazon...