Manage Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters with Terraform

This article provides a guide on how to use Terraform to manage Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters, including creating a new cluster, adding an IAM role, and scheduling operations like pause, resume, and resize.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Setting up an EC2 instance with Windows OS and installing Terraform
• Creating an IAM user and configuring AWS CLI for accessing AWS through code
• Storing Redshift admin credentials securely in AWS Secrets Manager
• Writing Terraform code to create a Redshift cluster and attach an IAM role
• Creating IAM policies and roles for scheduling Redshift cluster operations
• Writing Terraform code to schedule pause, resume, and resize operations on the cluster
• Testing the solution by applying the Terraform code and cleaning up resources