Amazon Lake Formation Documentation

Amazon Lake Formation is a managed service that makes it easy to set up, secure, and manage your data lakes. Lake Formation helps you discover your data sources and then catalog, cleanse, and transform the data. You can use Lake Formation to secure the data and ingest it into an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake.

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Overview of Amazon Lake Formation

Learn about the basic concepts and features in Amazon Lake Formation.

Upgrade Amazon Glue data permissions to the Amazon Lake Formation model

Get started with using Amazon Lake Formation permissions to manage access to your existing Amazon Glue Data Catalog.

Ingest data into your data lake

Create a data lake from an Amazon CloudTrail source (tutorial)

Create and load your first data lake from an Amazon CloudTrail source.

Create a data lake from a JDBC source (tutorial)

Create and load your first data lake from a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) source.

Secure your data lakes

Set up permissions for open table formats (tutorial)

Manage permissions for Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake tables.

Manage permissions on data lakes using tag-based access control (tutorial)

Define an LF-tag ontology based on data classification, and use LF-tags to grant access to Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals.

Secure data lakes using row-level access control (tutorial)

Grant permissions on a table with row-level security (row filtering) that allows access only to specific rows in the table.

Share your data lakes

Securely share your data using Amazon Lake Formation (tutorial)

Securely share your data lakes across Amazon accounts using tag-based access control.

Share your data using fine-grained access control (tutorial)

Share your data lakes in a scalable way using fine-grained access for internal and external customers from a centralized location.

User guides and references

Developer Guide

Provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Lake Formation. Also, it includes detailed instructions for using the various features.

API Reference

Describes the API operations for Amazon Lake Formation service, including sample requests and responses.