Lake Formation

easiest way to create & manage your data lake on S3

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Overview

  • You can use Lake Formation to secure the data and ingest it into an S3 data lake.

  • Helps you centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

  • Can manage fine-grained access control for your data lake data on S3 and metadata in Glue Data Catalog.

    • Principals (IAM user & role, SAML user and group, External account)

    • LF-Tags or catalog resources

    • Database permissions

    • Table permissions

Use cases

  • Ingest data to data lake: ingest data to S3 data lake

  • Secure your data lakes: fine-grained access control for your data lake

  • Share your data lakes


Integration

Glue

Create a data catalog using Glue Crawler


Permission management

Concepts

  • Data lake: central place for all data for analytic purpose.

  • S3 data lake: centrallize repo that allows you to store all your structured & unstructured data at any scale. It's built on S3.

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