> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Amazon Redshift Serverless connection

export const designer = "Designer";

export const maia = "Maia";

Amazon Redshift Serverless is a fully managed, on-demand data warehouse that automatically provisions and scales resources to match query performance.

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## Prerequisites

To use Amazon Redshift Serverless with {maia}, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place:

* A working Amazon Redshift Serverless instance set up in your AWS account.
* The Amazon Redshift instance must be accessible—either publicly or within your VPC, depending on your network setup.
* You need Amazon Redshift connection details: endpoint, port (default: 5439), username, and password.
* An S3 bucket must be available and configured for use as a staging location.
* AWS credentials (access key ID and secret access key) must have permissions to read and write to the staging bucket.

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## Connect to Amazon Redshift Serverless

To connect {maia} to Amazon Redshift Serverless, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your [{maia} account](https://app.matillion.com/start).
2. In the left navigation, click the Projects icon.
3. Click **Add project** and follow the guidance in [Projects](/docs/guides/projects) and then [Environments](/docs/guides/environments#amazon-redshift) to complete the setup.

Once you've completed the environment and credentials setup, your Amazon Redshift Serverless project will appear in the {designer} dashboard under the specified project name, and you are ready to start building data pipelines using your Amazon Redshift Serverless environment.