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Add the Amazon DynamoDB Connector

Authenticate to Amazon DynamoDB

After you add the connector, you need to set the required properties. supports authenticating to in several ways. Select your authentication method below to proceed to the relevant section that contains the authentication details.

Active Directory Federation Services

  • (Optional) Use Lake Formation: Select True if you want the AWS Lake Formation service to retrieve temporary credentials. These temporary credentials enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. You can use this service when you authenticate through Okta, ADFS, and PingFederate, while providing a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertion. The default setting for Use Lake Formation is False.

AWS Root Keys

AWS IAM Roles

AWS EC2 Roles

AWS Multifactor Authentication

AWS Credentials File

Okta

  • (Optional) Use Lake Formation: Select True if you want the AWS Lake Formation service to retrieve temporary credentials. These temporary credentials enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. You can use this service when you authenticate through Okta, ADFS, and PingFederate, while providing a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertion. The default setting for Use Lake Formation is False.

PingFederate

  • (Optional) Use Lake Formation: Select True if you want the AWS Lake Formation service to retrieve temporary credentials. These temporary credentials enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. You can use this service when you authenticate through Okta, ADFS, and PingFederate, while providing a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertion. The default setting for Use Lake Formation is False.

AWS Cognito Basic

AWS Cognito Secure Remote Password

Complete Your Connection

To complete your connection:
  1. For AWS Region, select the region that hosts your Amazon Web Services. The default region is NORTHERNVIRGINIA.
  2. Define advanced connection settings on the Advanced tab. (In most cases, though, you should not need these settings.)
  3. Click Create & Test to create your connection.

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