How to do it…

We should launch an Amazon Redshift cluster, as shown via the following steps:

1. Let's find Amazon Redshift among AWS services, as follows:

2. Click on Quick Launch Cluster.

 

3. Fill the options for the cluster, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. We should choose the smallest cluster if we want to use the trial version of AWS. We will choose our IAM roles and enter the password.
5. We should keep the password in a secure place, as we will need this for the Tableau connection. In this example, we are going to use a more powerful cluster ds2.xlarge, but we can work with the smallest available cluster.
6. Click on Launch cluster.