# Amazon Redshift Apica Ascent helps you to connect to your Redshift Cluster to easily query your data and build dashboards to visualize data easily The first step is to create a Redshift Cluster, please navigate to get started with Amazon Redshift ### Adding Redshift to Apica Ascent The second step is to create and add Redshift to Apica Ascent and add fill out the below fields and save * **Name**: Name the data source (e.g. Redshift) * **Host**: The full URL to your instance * **Port**: The port of the instance endpoint (e.g. 3306) * **User**: A user of the instance * **Password**: The password for the above user * **Database name**: The name of the virtual database for Redshift (e.g. Redshift1) ![Selecting a Redshift data source](/files/BS3tz1OjLqRNTpXf35lO) ![Configuring Redshift data source](/files/qhsi4yB6GaDA3x6ZiQEh) That's it. Now navigate the Query editor page and start querying your data --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.apica.io/data-sources/aws/amazon-redshift.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.