Prepare credentials and permissions in AWS Management Console

Certain credentials and permission are required for Validio to validate your data:

Access key

You must supply an Access key and Secret key to authenticate to AWS.

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For more information, refer to Managing access keys for IAM users.

Athena

Glue

S3: Read permissions on both data source bucket and query results bucket

S3: Write permissions to query result bucket

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For more information, refer to Identity and access management in Athena.

Field	Required	Description	Example
Name	✅	Identifier for the credentials. Used when accessing Sources.	service_acount_product_staging
Access key	✅	Access key for AWS authentication	AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
Secret key	✅	Secret key for the specified access key.	wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
AWS region	✅	Region from which Athena should run queries	eu-central-1
Query result location	✅	Location where to store query results	s3://myathenabucket/results

Field	Required	Description
Name	✅	Identifier for the Source. Used when setting up Validators.
Catalog	✅	Name of the catalog. This is sometimes called `Data source`.
Database	✅	Name of the database. This is sometimes called `schema`.
Table	✅	Name of the table with data to validate.