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Tag: Amazon CloudFormation

A public data lake for analysis of COVID-19 data

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten and take lives around the world, we must work together across organizations and scientific disciplines to fight this disease. Innumerable healthcare workers, medical researchers, scientists, and public health officials are already on the front lines caring for patients, searching for therapies, educating the public, and helping to set […]

Automate Amazon Redshift cluster creation using AWS CloudFormation

In this post, I explain how to automate the deployment of an Amazon Redshift cluster in an AWS account. AWS best practices for security and high availability drive the cluster’s configuration, and you can create it quickly by using AWS CloudFormation. I walk you through a set of sample CloudFormation templates, which you can customize as per your needs.