Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse used by many customers for data processing and analytics workloads.
The collaboration between Amazon Redshift and ThoughtSpot facilitates transforming raw data into actionable insights efficiently.
Integration of AWS IAM Identity Center with ThoughtSpot enables secure data access and streamlined authentication workflows.
Prior to this integration, ThoughtSpot users lacked native connectivity to integrate Amazon Redshift with identity providers for unified governance.
The IAM Identity Center integration allows ThoughtSpot users to connect natively to Amazon Redshift, enhancing data access management and security.
Organizations can benefit from single sign-on capabilities, trusted identity propagation, and role-based access control features with this integration.
The integration offers centralized user management, automatic synchronization of access permissions, and granular access control on catalog resources.
The solution provides comprehensive audit trails by logging end-user identities in Amazon Redshift and AWS CloudTrail for visibility into data access patterns.
The article guides readers on setting up ThoughtSpot integration with Amazon Redshift using IAM Identity Center for a secure and streamlined analytics environment.
AWS IAM Identity Center must be set up with Amazon Redshift integration, and prerequisites include a ThoughtSpot paid account with admin access and an active IdP account like Okta or Microsoft EntraID.
Detailed steps are provided for setting up an OIDC application with Okta or EntraID, creating a TTI in IAM Identity Center, configuring client connections and TTIs in Amazon Redshift, and federating with Amazon Redshift from ThoughtSpot using IAM Identity Center.