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Fixes DOCS-13741

Adds a new guide for connecting Amazon Redshift to Datadog Experiments for warehouse-native experiment analysis. The guide covers IAM permissions, database setup, Datadog configuration, optional log collection, and verification steps.

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@iadjivon iadjivon changed the title [DOCS-13741] Add Redshift guide for warehouse-native experiment analysis [DOCS-13741] EXP- GA Redshift guide Mar 21, 2026
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## Overview

This guide walks through connecting AWS Redshift to Datadog to enable warehouse-native experiment analysis in four steps: connecting AWS to Datadog, creating necessary resources in AWS, granting permissions to the Datadog service user, and configuring experiment-specific settings in Datadog.

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The Snowflake PR (#35422 (review)) lists these in bullets. Do we prefer paragraph or bullet?


### Create a Service User for Datadog Experiments

1. Connect to your Redshift cluster with a user that has superuser or admin privileges.

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We should probably say "Connect to your Redshift database" here. All of the commands below assume you are in your desired database.

Also, in QA I noticed that I couldn't select from one database into another. I think that is an acceptable limitation for now (possibly controlled by them.. I don't think our redshift cluster supported cross-db queries) but this language would imply that you are dealing with one database.


### Create an S3 Bucket

Create an S3 bucket for importing exposure events into your warehouse. The bucket must start with `"datadog-experimentation-"`, e.g. `datadog-experimentation-[AWS account ID]`. Default settings can be used.

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Like the BQ PR you could link to S3 docs here.

"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "GetClusterCreds",

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Rename to "RedshiftGetClusterCredentials" or remove (Sid is optional)

"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Sid": "ListTheBucket",

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Rename to "ListExperimentationBucket" or remove (Sid is optional)

"Resource": "[S3 bucket ARN]"
},
{
"Sid": "ObjectRW",

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Rename to "ReadWriteExperimentationBucket" or remove (Sid is optional)

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