Prerequisites - Amazon Lake Formation
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Prerequisites

Before you start this tutorial, you must have an Amazon Web Services account that you can use to sign in as an administrative user with correct permissions. For more information, see Complete initial Amazon configuration tasks.

The tutorial assumes that you are familiar with IAM. For information about IAM, see the IAM User Guide.

Change Lake Formation settings
Important

Before launching the Amazon CloudFormation template, disable the option Use only IAM access control for new databases/tables in Lake Formation by following the steps below:

  1. Sign into the Lake Formation console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/lakeformation/ in the US East (N. Virginia) region or US West (Oregon) region.

  2. Under Data Catalog, choose Settings.

  3. Deselect Use only IAM access control for new databases and Use only IAM access control for new tables in new databases.

  4. Choose Save.