If you are unable to discover streams automatically after connecting to AWS, you can add
streams manually.
Procedure
- Required: Set the AWS credentials to use for the
connection:
- To set up a new connection ensure that Connect an account is
active and complete these required fields:
- Create a name for your account: This unique
name (with a minimum of 4 characters) is used to identify your account in the future.
- Add your access information:
- To authenticate with security credentials, select the
Security-Credentials radio button. If you will also include an
IAM-Role for authentication, select its radio button.
- AWS access key: Enter your AWS access key.
- AWS secret access key: Enter your AWS secret access key.
- Role ARN: This field is only available if you selected the
IAM-Role radio button. Enter your Role ARN in this field.
- To reuse an existing connection, click Use existing account and
then select the radio button next to the account that you want to use.
- Click Next.
- Required: Use the Add stream details page to manually add the details for the
stream that you want to add:
- Stream name: Enter the name of the stream to connect
to.
- Region: Select the region in which the selected stream is
located.
- Port: Specify the database port
number.
- Cluster resource ID: The cluster
resource ID for the AWS RDS cluster associated with the stream. If you enter an invalid or unknown
cluster resource ID, an error is reported in the status for the stream.
- Consumer group name: Determines
whether multiple consumers have a shared or separate view of this data stream. To share the data
stream view, use the same consumer group name. The consumer group name can be any name that is
unique.
- Database DNS endpoint: Specify the
database DNS endpoint (host).
- Database type: Choose the database type to connect
to.
- Click Next.
- Optional: To be able to complete actions such as
blocking, complete the Add database credentials page:
- Database name: Enter the database name.
- Database host: Enter the database host.
- Username and Password: Enter your
database user credentials.
Important: Blocking users is supported on AWS PostgreSQL, but not AWS Aurora. If you are connected to AWS Aurora, leave the default values in this page
as-is.
- Click Connect and finish.
What to do next
After you add a data source, it is scanned
almost immediately. You can use these actions to work with connections:
- To delete a connection, select its checkbox, and click
Remove in the banner that opens. You can select multiple connections and
remove them with this button.
- To edit a connection, select its Connection name
link in the table. This opens a panel that allows you to Enable or
Disable the connection. In addition, you can see the status of the connection
and edit its configurations.
- To export a CSV list of the connections in the table, click
Export CSV. This will export a list of only the connections that are
currently in the table - it will not include any that have been filtered out.
- To refresh the list of connections, click
Refresh.