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Securing Your Data in Amazon Redshift
This lab is designed to help you understand how to implement key security features in Amazon Redshift. You will learn how to enable encryption for data at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and ensure data in transit is protected using secure connection options. Additionally, you will configure audit logging to capture and analyze query logs, connection logs, and user activity logs for auditing and compliance purposes.
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Applying Encryption and Audit Logging to Secure Amazon Redshift
To start, you'll enable encryption and audit logging to enhance the security and compliance of your Amazon Redshift cluster. You'll create a custom parameter group, configure KMS encryption, and activate CloudWatch logging to monitor user activity and connections.
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Applying Security Groups and NACL Rules to Protect Redshift Clusters
You’ll configure security groups and NACL rules to control and restrict network access to your Redshift cluster. These settings ensure only authorized resources, like your EC2 instance, can communicate with Redshift.
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Validating Encryption for Data At-Rest and In-Transit in Redshift
You’ll verify that your Redshift cluster is encrypted both at rest and in transit. You’ll test connectivity with and without SSL to confirm that data transmission is securely enforced.
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Accessing Redshift Logs to Monitor User Activity
Finally, you’ll access and monitor three types of Amazon Redshift logs in CloudWatch: Connection logs, which capture authentication attempts; User logs, which record user-level activities such as account changes; and User Activity logs, which detail SQL operations and queries. You’ll also query the stl_query system table in Redshift to retrieve historical information about executed queries for deeper visibility into workload behavior.
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