Connecting programmatically to Amazon Keyspaces
This topic outlines the steps required to connect to Amazon Keyspaces programmatically. It guides you through creating IAM credentials and lists the available AWS service endpoints. The last section shows how to connect to Amazon Keyspaces using cqlsh. For step-by-step tutorials to connect to Amazon Keyspaces using different Apache Cassandra drivers, see Using a Cassandra client driver to access Amazon Keyspaces programmatically. For a step-by-step tutorial that shows how to connect to Amazon Keyspaces from an Amazon VPC endpoint, see Tutorial: Connecting to Amazon Keyspaces using an interface VPC endpoint.
Note
To help you get started, you can find end-to-end code samples of connecting to
Amazon Keyspaces by using various Cassandra client drivers in the Amazon Keyspaces code example repository
on GitHub
Amazon Keyspaces supports drivers and clients that are compatible with Apache Cassandra 3.11.2. It assumes that you have already completed the AWS setup instructions in Accessing Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).
If you already have an AWS account, see the following topics to learn how to access Amazon Keyspaces using cqlsh programmatically:
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