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## AWS Redshift

The [sqlalchemy-redshift](https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-redshift/) library is the recommended
way to connect to Redshift through SQLAlchemy.

You'll need to the following setting values to form the connection string:

- **User Name**: userName
- **Password**: DBPassword
- **Database Host**: AWS Endpoint
- **Database Name**: Database Name
- **Port**: default 5439

Here's what the connection string looks like:

```
redshift+psycopg2://<userName>:<DBPassword>@<AWS End Point>:5439/<Database Name>
```
