Materialize/doc/user/content/ingest-data/network-security/privatelink.md

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title: "AWS PrivateLink connections" description: "How to connect Materialize to a Kafka broker, a Confluent Schema Registry server, a PostgreSQL database, or a MySQL database through an AWS PrivateLink service." aliases:

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Materialize can connect to a Kafka broker, a Confluent Schema Registry server, a PostgreSQL database, or a MySQL database through an AWS PrivateLink service.

In this guide, we'll cover how to create AWS PRIVATELINK connections and retrieve the AWS principal needed to configure the AWS PrivateLink service.

Create an AWS PrivateLink connection

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{{< note >}} Materialize provides a Terraform module that automates the creation and configuration of AWS resources for a PrivateLink connection. For more details, see the Terraform module repository. {{</ note >}}

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Related pages

• CREATE SECRET
• CREATE CONNECTION
• CREATE SOURCE: Kafka
• Integration guides: Self-hosted PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Self-hosted Kafka, Amazon MSK, Redpanda Cloud