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Amazon Redshift security

Amazon Redshift security

- [Instructor] Like most AWS services, security for your Redshift data warehouse is a shared responsibility. When using Redshift Serverless, you don't need to worry about infrastructure security, but you still need to define user privileges and access. For clusters you also need to configure the infrastructure security using a VPC. So in this lesson, we'll learn about data encryption, user authentication, and infrastructure security for Redshift. In Amazon Redshift, you can enable database encryption for your clusters to help protect data at rest. When you enable encryption for a cluster, the data blocks and system metadata are encrypted for the cluster as well as its snapshots. You can enable encryption when you launch your cluster, or you can modify an encrypted cluster to use an AWS key Management Service or KMS encryption key. When you modify your cluster to enable KMS encryption, Amazon Redshift automatically migrates your data to a new encrypted cluster. Be aware that this…

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