AWS Integration

ElasticDW needs permission to access your cloud environment. This is accomplished by creating an IAM Role. This operation needs to be performed only once. You have the option of using the boilerplate (recommended), or customizing the Cloud Formation template provided.

For ElasticDW to be able to manage resources in a user’s account, it needs an IAM role with a specific set of permissions. That role is required when creating an environment in EDW and it’s what allows it to create the AWS resources for new clusters and for management purposes. We provide a cloudformation template to create that role. There are multiple ways to create the IAM role with that template:

• The Launch Stack wizard (the recommended method)
• CLI commands using the template.
• Using the prerequisite terraform provider.

NOTE: We assume that you have all necessary permissions in your account to create the role.

Advanced users may also choose to setup these authorizations via Terraform.