Prerequisite credentials

You need the following to configure Redshift credentials in the Validio platform:

  • A IAM user with permissions to access the specified Kinesis stream
  • Credentials for the IAM user

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Permissions for the IAM user

Certain permissions and roles are required for the IAM user.
For more information, refer to Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Kinesis.

IAM user for Destination config

We recommended that you create an IAM user with access to write records into a stream, for the Validio platform to egress data into your Kinesis stream.

The following permissions are required:

  • Action PutRecords; access level Write; resource type stream

Access key

You must supply an Access key and secret key to authenticate to the S3 bucket.
For more information, refer to Managing access keys for IAM users.

Credential parameters

FieldRequiredDescriptionExample
Nameβœ…Identifier for the credentials. Used when accessing sources.East coast weather forecast
Access keyβœ…Access key with permissions to access the Kinesis stream.AKUEBNDJHA7BJSHJVA6F
Secret keyβœ…Secret key for the specified access key.aslk/KOJHJKBuibhj

2jq3csaVGHYTFgvhc

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Egress in JSON format

Validio currently supports datapoint egress to a Kinesis record in JSON format.

Configuration parameters

FieldRequiredDescriptionExample
Nameβœ…Identifier for the destination on Validio.East coast weather forecast - validated
AWS regionβœ…AWS region that the Kinesis stream is available in.eu-north-1
Stream nameβœ…Name of the stream to egress data to.east-coast-weather-validated
EndpointEndpoint of AWS service.

This is useful when testing with Amazon Localstack.