Technical requirements
You will need the following technical requirements to complete the recipes in this chapter:
- Access to the AWS Console.
- An AWS administrator should create an IAM user by following Recipe 1 – Creating an IAM user in the Appendix. This IAM user will be used in some of the recipes in this chapter.
- An AWS administrator 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 used in some of the recipes in this chapter.
- An AWS administrator should deploy the AWS CloudFormation template (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Amazon-Redshift-Cookbook/blob/master/Chapter03/chapter_3_CFN.yaml) and create two IAM policies:
a. An IAM policy attached to the IAM user, which will give them access to Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon EMR.
b. An IAM policy attached to the IAM role, which will allow the Amazon Redshift cluster to access Amazon...