Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Data lakes are a centralized repository for storing structured and unstructured data at scale. Data lakes enable you to create dashboards, perform big data processing and real-time analytics, and create machine learning (ML) models on your data to drive business decisions. Many customers are choosing AWS Lake Formation as their data lake management solution. Lake […]

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 […]

Amazon Managed Grafana recently announced a new data source plugin for Amazon Redshift, enabling you to query, visualize, and alert on your Amazon Redshift data from Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces. With the new Amazon Redshift data source, you can now create dashboards and alerts in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to analyze your structured and […]

Many customers already manage user identities through identity providers (IdPs) for single sign-on access. With an IdP such as Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), you can set up federated access to Amazon Redshift clusters as a mechanism to control permissions for the database objects by business groups. This provides a seamless user experience, and centralizes the governance […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift offers up to three times better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse, and can expand to petabyte scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS […]

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 […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price-performance. It allows you to run complex analytic queries against terabytes to petabytes of structured and semi-structured data, using sophisticated query optimization, columnar on high-performance storage, and massively parallel query execution. At AWS, we embrace the culture that security is job zero, by […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easier to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Cloud operation teams can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation to centrally manage access to Athena. This simplifies administration by allowing a governing team to control user access […]

Many AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts and Regions across different departments and applications within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach to centralize users, data source access, and dashboard management. This post explores how you can use different Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) private connectivity features to connect QuickSight […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Managing database users through identity federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse, provides browser-based plugins for JDBC/ODBC drivers, which helps you easily implement identity federation capabilities added with multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure your data […]