AWS Big Data Blog
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Use the default IAM role in Amazon Redshift to simplify accessing other AWS services
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 […]
Configure single sign-on authentication for Amazon Athena with Azure AD integrated to on-premises AD
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 […]
Restrict access to your AWS Glue Data Catalog with resource-level IAM permissions and resource-based policies
Data cataloging is an important part of many analytical systems. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides integration with a wide number of tools. Using the Data Catalog, you also can specify a policy that grants permissions to objects in the Data Catalog. Data lakes require detailed access control at both the content level and the level of the metadata describing the content. In this post, we show how you can define the access policies for the metadata in the catalog.