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Overview (p. 24)
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Creating a Cluster in a VPC (p. 24)
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Amazon Redshift Cluster Subnet Groups (p. 25)
Overview
Amazon Redshift supports both the EC2-VPC and EC2-Classic platforms to launch a cluster. For more
information, see
Supported Platforms to Launch Your Cluster (p. 6)
.
When provisioning a cluster in VPC, you need to do the following:
• Provide VPC information
When you request Amazon Redshift to create a cluster in your VPC, you must provide your VPC
information, such as the VPC ID, and a list of subnets in your VPC by first creating a cluster subnet
group. When you launch a cluster you provide the cluster subnet group so that Amazon Redshift can
provision your cluster in one of the subnets in the VPC. For more information about creating subnet
groups in Amazon Redshift, see
Amazon Redshift Cluster Subnet Groups (p. 25)
. For more information
about setting up VPC, go to
Getting Started with Amazon VPC
in the VPC Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud Getting Started Guide.
• Associate a VPC security group
You then grant inbound access using the VPC security group. For more information, go to
Security in
Your VPC
in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide. You cannot use the Amazon Redshift
cluster security groups to grant inbound access to the cluster.
For more information, see
Creating a Cluster in a VPC (p. 24)
.
Restoring a Snapshot of a Cluster in VPC
A snapshot of a cluster in VPC can only be restored in a VPC, not outside the VPC. You can restore it in
the same VPC or another VPC in your account. For more information about snapshots, see
Amazon
Redshift Snapshots (p. 52)
.
Creating a Cluster in a VPC
The following are the general steps how you can deploy a cluster in your VPC.
How to create a cluster in a VPC
1.
Set up a VPC.
You can either set up a VPC or use default VPC if available for your account. For more information,
see
Supported Platforms to Launch Your Cluster (p. 6)
. To create a VPC, follow steps 2 and 3 in
the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Getting Started Guide
. Make a note of the VPC identifier, subnet,
and subnet's availability zone. You will need this information when you launch your cluster.
Note
You must have at least one subnet defined in your VPC so you can add it to the cluster
subnet group in the next step. If you use the VPC Wizard, a subnet for your VPC is
automatically created for you. For more information about adding a subnet to your VPC, go
to
Adding a Subnet to Your VPC
.
2.
Create an Amazon Redshift cluster subnet group with information about your VPC.
You can create cluster subnet group using either the Amazon Redshift console or programmatically.
For more information, see
Amazon Redshift Cluster Subnet Groups (p. 25)
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