Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse that you can use to scale analytics workloads effortlessly. As organizations expand their analytics capabilities across multiple business units, they need streamlined approaches for defining and managing fine-grained permissions for each warehouse. Many organizations use external identity providers (IdPs) like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or Ping to manage workforce identities centrally and need streamlined data warehouse integration with consistent access controls. We address these challenges by introducing Amazon Redshift federated permissions with AWS IAM Identity Center integration so that you can define security policies once and automatically enforce them across the warehouses in your account.
Amazon Redshift federated permissions are now supported with IAM Identity Center across multiple AWS Regions, where you can use identities from supported identity provider (IdP) such as Microsoft…