Using Amazon Redshift in AWS based Data Lake

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2. Create IAM Role

You start with creation of the IAM role which AWS Glue uses for the authorization to call other AWS Services.

  1. Login to the AWS Console and select Ireland as the region.

  2. Goto the IAM Management console and click on the Roles menu in the left and then click on the Create role button.

    IAM Role

  3. On the next screen, select Glue as the service and click on the Next: Permissions button.

    IAM Role

  4. On the next screen, select PowerUserAccess as the policy and click on the Next: Tags button. The exercise is using power user permission but in actual production use it is recommended to use minimum required permission only.

    IAM Role

  5. On the next screen, click on the Next: Review button.

  6. On the next screen, type in dojo-glue-role for the Role name and click on the Create role button.

    IAM Role

  7. The role is created in no time. The next step is to create S3 bucket.