# DSS in AWS[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/cloud/aws/index.html#dss-in-aws "Permalink to this headline")

DSS features deep integration with multiple AWS services:

* Connecting to S3 data

* Connecting to RDS

* Connecting to Redshift, including fast copy between S3 and Redshift

* Leveraging EMR, including dynamically-managed EMR clusters

* Leveraging EKS, including dynamically-managed EKS clusters

* Leveraging Athena over S3 data

* Reference architecture: managed compute on EKS with Glue and Athena

+ Overview

+ Architecture diagram

+ Security

+ Main steps

- Prepare the instance

- Setup connectivity to AWS

- Install DSS

- Setup container configuration in DSS

- Setup Spark and Metastore in DSS

- Setup S3 connections

- Setup Athena connections

- Install EKS plugin

- Create your first cluster

- Use it
