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Enhance data security and governance for Amazon Redshift Spectrum with VPC endpoints

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This article explains how to enhance data security and governance for Amazon Redshift Spectrum by using VPC endpoints to access AWS services like AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and AWS Lake Formation from within an Amazon VPC. It enables Redshift Spectrum to access data in Amazon S3 through a private network without any public connectivity.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Creating a Redshift cluster in a private subnet with enhanced VPC routing enabled
  • Creating VPC endpoints for AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 gateway
  • Verifying network connectivity from Redshift to the VPC endpoints
  • Testing connectivity by running SQL queries on Redshift Spectrum tables
  • Cleaning up the created resources
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