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

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Integration

Glue

Create a data catalog using Glue Crawler

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Permission management

permission workflow

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.