Step 3: Create an Amazon S3 bucket for the data lake - AWS Lake Formation

Step 3: Create an Amazon S3 bucket for the data lake

Create the Amazon S3 bucket that is to be the root location of your data lake.

  1. Open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/ and sign in as the administrator user that you created in Create a user with administrative access.

  2. Choose Create bucket, and go through the wizard to create a bucket named <yourName>-datalake-cloudtrail, where <yourName> is your first initial and last name. For example: jdoe-datalake-cloudtrail.

    For detailed instructions on creating an Amazon S3 bucket, see Creating a bucket.