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Advanced settings

The following table describes the advanced connection properties:

Property	Description
Customer Master Key ID	The customer master key ID generated by AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) or the ARN of your custom key for cross-account access when you stage data in Amazon S3. The customer master key serves to encrypt your data at the destination before they are saved in Amazon S3.You can either enter the customer-generated customer master key ID or the default customer master key ID. Ensure that you generate the customer master key for the same region where your Amazon S3 bucket resides. For more information about using customer master keys with Amazon Athena, see Encryption in the AWS documentation.
External ID	The external ID associated with the IAM role. External ID is a unique, user-defined string value that the IAM role requires the EC2 role to provide when calling the sts:AssumeRole API.

Property

Description

Customer Master Key ID

The customer master key ID generated by AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) or the ARN of your custom key for cross-account access when you stage data in Amazon S3.

The customer master key serves to encrypt your data at the destination before they are saved in Amazon S3.You can either enter the customer-generated customer master key ID or the default customer master key ID.

Ensure that you generate the customer master key for the same region where your Amazon S3 bucket resides.

For more information about using customer master keys with Amazon Athena, see Encryption in the AWS documentation.

External ID

The external ID associated with the IAM role.

External ID is a unique, user-defined string value that the IAM role requires the EC2 role to provide when calling the sts:AssumeRole API.

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