AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Rajesh Francis
Centralize governance for your data lake using AWS Lake Formation while enabling a modern data architecture with Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Many customers are modernizing their data architecture using Amazon Redshift to enable access to all their data from a central data location. They are looking for a simpler, scalable, and centralized way to define and enforce access policies on their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). They want access policies to allow […]
Security considerations for Amazon Redshift cross-account data sharing
Data driven organizations recognize the intrinsic value of data and realize that monetizing data is not just about selling data to subscribers. They understand the indirect economic impact of data and the value that good data brings to the organization. They must democratize data and make it available for business decision makers to realize its […]
Implementing multi-tenant patterns in Amazon Redshift using data sharing
Software service providers offer subscription-based analytics capabilities in the cloud with Analytics as a Service (AaaS), and increasingly customers are turning to AaaS for business insights. A multi-tenant storage strategy allows the service providers to build a cost-effective architecture to meet increasing demand. Multi-tenancy means a single instance of software and its supporting infrastructure is […]
Federating single sign-on access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with PingIdentity
Single sign-on (SSO) enables users to have a seamless user experience while accessing various applications in the organization. If you’re responsible for setting up security and database access privileges for users and tasked with enabling SSO for Amazon Redshift, you can set up SSO authentication using ADFS, PingIdentity, Okta, Azure AD or other SAML browser […]
Federate access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS): Part 2
In the first post of this series, Federating access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory: Part 1, you set up Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) based authentication and tested the SAML federation using a web browser. In Part 2, you learn to set up an […]
Federate access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS): Part 1
This blog post was reviewed and updated May 2022, to include and comply with recently published Part 3 from this series. Many customers request detailed steps to set up federated single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for Amazon Redshift. In this two-part series, you will find detailed steps to achieve […]