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Category: AWS Secrets Manager

Enhance your security posture by storing Amazon Redshift admin credentials without human intervention using AWS Secrets Manager integration

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers—from Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between—use Amazon Redshift to run mission-critical business intelligence (BI) dashboards, […]

Secure your database credentials with AWS Secrets Manager and encrypt data with AWS KMS in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share them with tens of thousands of users, either directly within a QuickSight application, or embedded in web apps and portals. Let’s consider AnyCompany, which owns healthcare facilities across the country. […]

Store Amazon EMR in-transit data encryption certificates using AWS Secrets Manager

With Amazon EMR, you can use a security configuration to specify settings for encrypting data in transit. When in-transit encryption is configured, you can enable application-specific encryption features, for example: Hadoop HDFS NameNode or DataNode user interfaces use HTTPS Hadoop MapReduce encrypted shuffle uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) Presto nodes internal communication uses SSL/TLS (Amazon […]

Apply CI/CD DevOps principles to Amazon Redshift development

CI/CD in the context of application development is a well-understood topic, and developers can choose from numerous patterns and tools to build their pipelines to handle the build, test, and deploy cycle when a new commit gets into version control. For stored procedures or even schema changes that are directly related to the application, this […]