Connecting to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using SQL client tools

You can connect to Amazon Redshift data warehouses from SQL client tools over Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Python, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connections. Amazon Redshift doesn't provide or install any SQL client tools or libraries. To use these tools or libraries to work with data in your data warehouses, install them on your client computer or Amazon EC2 instance. You can use most SQL client tools that support JDBC, Python, or ODBC drivers.

Use the list of sections at the end of this topic to help you walk through the process of configuring your client computer or Amazon EC2 instance to use a JDBC, Python, or ODBC connection. The topics also discuss related security options for the client connection to the server. Additionally, find information about setting up and connecting from SQL client tools, such as Amazon Redshift RSQL. You can try these tools if you don't yet have a business intelligence tool to use. You can also use this section to learn about connecting to your data . Finally, if you encounter issues when attempting to connect to your data warehouse, you can review the troubleshooting information to identify solutions.

Recommendations for connecting with client tools

If you connect to your Redshift cluster using an IP address, it can result in additional downtime when there is an outage or a connection loss and the cluster is brought online in a new Availability Zone (AZ). However, if you still want your application to connect to Redshift using an IP address, use the private IP address attached to the cluster's virtual-private-cloud (VPC) endpoint. You can find this in the cluster details in Network and security, under the Properties tab.