AWS Lake Formation (AMS SSPS)

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions.

Creating a data lake with Lake Formation is as simple as defining data sources and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Lake Formation then helps you collect and catalog data from databases and object storage, move the data into your new Amazon S3 data lake, clean and classify your data using machine learning algorithms, and secure access to your sensitive data. Your users can access a centralized data catalog (for details, see AWS Glue FAQs) that describes available data sets and their appropriate usage. Your users then leverage these data sets with their choice of analytics and machine learning services, like Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, and (in beta) Amazon EMR for Apache Spark. Lake Formation builds on the capabilities available in AWS Glue.

To learn more, see AWS Lake Formation.

Lake Formation in AWS Managed Services FAQs

Q: How do I request access to AWS Lake Formation in my AMS account?

Request access by submitting a Management | AWS service | Self-provisioned service | Add (review required) (ct-3qe6io8t6jtny) change type. This RFC provisions the following IAM role to your account: customer_lakeformation_data_analyst_role. After it's provisioned in your account, you must onboard the roles in your federation solution.

Q: What are the restrictions to using AWS Lake Formation in my AMS account?

Full functionality of Lake Formation is available in AMS.

Q: What are the prerequisites or dependencies to using AWS Lake Formation in my AMS account?

Lake Formation integrates with the AWS Glue service, therefore AWS Glue users can access only the databases and tables on which they have Lake Formation permissions. Additionally AWS Athena and Amazon Redshift users can only query the AWS Glue databases and tables on which they have Lake Formation permissions.