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Neptune

Documentation

In particular, see Gremlin differences, and Gremlin sessions.

And any time you see docs from Kelvin (like the PRACTICAL GREMLIN book or lots of stackoverflow) pay attention, he works for AWS on Neptune.

IAM authentication

The gremlin transport is usually websockets, and the requests-aws4auth library we use elsewhere is for requests, which does not support websockets at all. So we rolled our in aws4authwebsocket. The saving grace of websockets and IAM is that the IAM authentication really only applies to the initialization request and the rest of the data flows over the existing TCP connection. The usual gremlin-python transport is Tornado, which was a huge pain to try and insinuate the aws4 autentication in to, so we use the websockets-client library instead.

How to get a gremlin console for AWS

They have pretty decent recipe here