Recipe 3 – Creating an IAM role for an AWS service

You can use the following steps to create an IAM user:

1. Navigate to the IAM console.
2. Select Roles, and then choose Create role.
3. For Select type of trusted entity, choose AWS service.
4. For Choose a use case, select Redshift.
5. For Select your use case, choose Redshift – Customizable (allows a Redshift cluster to call AWS services on your behalf). Click Next: Permissions.
6. Skip Create Policy, click Next: Tags, then click Next: Review.
7. Provide a role name and click Create role. Note the role name to attach it to the Amazon Redshift cluster.