Amazon Redshift Adds IAM Identity Center Authentication with Enhanced VPC Routing

Amazon Redshift supports AWS IAM Identity Center single sign-on with enhanced VPC routing, securing analytics traffic within the AWS network without public internet egress.

By Marcus Lane · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-08-31 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-08-31. Source published: 2026-08-31. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Redshift introduced support for AWS IAM Identity Center authentication on provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). This integration allows users to access Redshift via corporate SSO credentials while ensuring all network traffic remains inside the customer’s Amazon VPC.

The EVR feature enforces governance through security groups and network policies and provides monitoring through VPC Flow Logs. IAM tokens are exchanged over PrivateLink VPC endpoints, enabling consistent network control and compliance with data residency and security requirements. Multi-region IAM Identity Center replication is also supported.

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Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing ↗

Source published 2026-08-31. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.