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Connecting to Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift

Connecting to Amazon Redshift

PDFRSS

You can connect to your database using the following syntax.

cluster-name.account-number.aws-region.redshift.amazonaws.com/database-name

The syntax elements are defined as follows.

  • cluster-name

    Your cluster's name.

  • account-number

    The unique identifier associated with your AWS account number in a given AWS Region. All clusters created by a given account in a given AWS Region have the same account-number.

  • aws-region

    The code for the AWS Region that the cluster is in.

  • database-name

    Your database's name.

For example, the following connection string specifies the my-db database in the my-cluster cluster in the us-east-1 AWS Region.

my-cluster.123456789012.us-east-1.redshift.amazonaws.com/my-db

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