Lake Formation components
AWS Lake Formation relies on the interaction of several components to create and manage your data lake.
Lake Formation console
You use the Lake Formation console to define and manage your data lake and grant and revoke Lake Formation permissions. You can use blueprints on the console to discover, cleanse, transform, and ingest data. You can also enable or disable access to the console for individual Lake Formation users.
Lake Formation API and Command Line Interface
Lake Formation provides API operations through several language-specific SDKs and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). The Lake Formation API works in conjunction with the AWS Glue API. The Lake Formation API focuses primarily on managing Lake Formation permissions, while the AWS Glue API provides a data catalog API and a managed infrastructure for defining, scheduling, and running ETL operations on your data.
For information about the AWS Glue API, see the AWS Glue Developer Guide. For information about using the AWS CLI, see the AWS CLI Command Reference.
Other AWS services
Lake Formation uses the following services:
