Intended audience - Amazon Lake Formation
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Intended audience

This tutorial is intended for IAM administrators, data lake administrators, and business analysts. The following table lists the roles used in this tutorial for creating a governed table using Lake Formation.

Role Description
IAM Administrator A user who can create IAM users and roles and Amazon S3 buckets. Has the AdministratorAccess Amazon managed policy.
Data lake administrator A user who can access the Data Catalog, create databases, and grant Lake Formation permissions to other users. Has fewer IAM permissions than the IAM administrator, but enough to administer the data lake.
Business analyst A user who can run queries against the data lake. Has permissions to run queries.