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Updating IAM Identity Center integration

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Updating IAM Identity Center integration - AWS Lake Formation

After creating the connection, you can add third-party applications for the IAM Identity Center integration to integrate with Lake Formation, and get access to Amazon S3 data on behalf of the users. You can also remove existing applications from the IAM Identity Center integration. You can add or remove applications using Lake Formation console, AWS CLI, and using UpdateLakeFormationIdentityCenterConfiguration operation.

Note

After creating IAM Identity Center integration, you can't update the instance ARN.

AWS Management Console
To update an existing IAM Identity Center connection with Lake Formation
  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Lake Formation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/lakeformation/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, select IAM Identity Center integration.

  3. Select Add on the IAM Identity Center integration page.

  4. Enter one or more valid AWS account IDs, organization IDs, and/or organizational unit IDs to allow external accounts to access the Data Catalog resources.

  5. On the Add applications screen, enter the application IDs of the third-party applications that you want to integrate with Lake Formation.

  6. Select Add.

AWS CLI

You can add or remove third-party applications for the IAM Identity Center integration by running the following AWS CLI command. When you set external filtering status to ENABLED, it enables the IAM Identity Center to provide identity management for third-party applications to access data managed by Lake Formation. You can also enable or disable the IAM Identity Center integration by setting the application status.

aws lakeformation update-lake-formation-identity-center-configuration \ --external-filtering '{"AuthorizedTargets": ["<app arn1>", "<app arn2>"], "Status": "ENABLED"}'\ --share-recipients '[{"DataLakePrincipalIdentifier": "<444455556666>"} {"DataLakePrincipalIdentifier": "<777788889999>"}]' \ --application-status ENABLED
To update an existing IAM Identity Center connection with Lake Formation
  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Lake Formation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/lakeformation/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, select IAM Identity Center integration.

  3. Select Add on the IAM Identity Center integration page.

  4. Enter one or more valid AWS account IDs, organization IDs, and/or organizational unit IDs to allow external accounts to access the Data Catalog resources.

  5. On the Add applications screen, enter the application IDs of the third-party applications that you want to integrate with Lake Formation.

  6. Select Add.

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