Create a Redshift cluster

Usage

aws_db_redshift_create(
  id,
  user,
  pwd,
  dbname = "dev",
  cluster_type = "multi-node",
  node_type = "dc2.large",
  number_nodes = 2,
  security_group_ids = NULL,
  wait = TRUE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

id: (character) Cluster identifier. Use this identifier to refer to the cluster for any subsequent cluster operations such as deleting or modifying. The identifier also appears in the Amazon Redshift console. Must be unique for all clusters within a Amazon Web Services account.
user: (character) User name associated with the admin user account for the cluster that is being created. This is the username for your IAM account
pwd: (character) Password associated with the admin user account for the cluster that is being created. This is the password for your IAM account
dbname: (character) The name of the first database to be created when the cluster is created. default: "dev". additional databases can be created within the cluster
cluster_type: (character) The type of the cluster: "single-node" or "multi-node" (default).
node_type: (character) The node type to be provisioned for the cluster. defaul: "dc2.large"
number_nodes: (integer/numeric) number of nodes; for multi-node cluster type, this must be 2 or greater. default: 2
security_group_ids: (character) VPC security group identifiers; one or more. If none are supplied, you should go into your AWS Redshift dashboard and add the appropriate VPC security group.
wait: (logical) wait for cluster to initialize? default: TRUE. If you don't wait (FALSE) then there's many operations you can not do until the cluster is available. If wait=FALSE use aws_db_cluster_status() to check on the cluster status.
verbose: (logical) verbose informational output? default: TRUE
...: named parameters passed on to create_cluster

Value

returns NULL, this function called for the side effect of creating an Redshift instance

Note

See above link to create_cluster docs for details on requirements for each parameter

Waiting

Note that with wait = TRUE this function waits for the instance to be available for returning. That wait can be around 5 - 7 minutes. You can instead set wait = FALSE and then check on the status of the instance yourself in the AWS dashboard.