Amazon Keyspaces (Cassandra) Give your existing user access to cassandra amazon keyspace aws iam create-service-specific-credential \ --user-name alice \ --service-name cassandra.amazonaws.com Install cqlsh and extensions extesnsion here Connect Example cqlsh cassandra.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com 9142 -u ur_username-at-youawsID -p gXXXXXXXh1kJVVVXXXXXXXXFm3XXXXXYkm7cwgo= --ssl