Step 1: Create a data analyst user - AWS Lake Formation

Step 1: Create a data analyst user

This user has the minimum set of permissions to query the data lake.

  1. Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam. Sign in as the administrator user that you created in Create a user with administrative access or as a user with the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy.

  2. Create a user named datalake_user with the following settings:

    • Enable AWS Management Console access.

    • Set a password and do not require password reset.

    • Attach the AmazonAthenaFullAccess AWS managed policy.

    • Attach the following inline policy. Name the policy DatalakeUserBasic.

      {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "lakeformation:GetDataAccess",
                "glue:GetTable",
                "glue:GetTables",
                "glue:SearchTables",
                "glue:GetDatabase",
                "glue:GetDatabases",
                "glue:GetPartitions",
                "lakeformation:GetResourceLFTags",
                "lakeformation:ListLFTags",
                "lakeformation:GetLFTag",
                "lakeformation:SearchTablesByLFTags",
                "lakeformation:SearchDatabasesByLFTags"                
           ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}