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AWS Lake Formation

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Purpose
AWS Lake Formation helps centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics and machine learning.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Founded
2006Read 23 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Audit
Lake Formation provides audit logs through AWS CloudTrail to monitor data access, including which users or roles attempted access and when.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
AWS integrations
Native integrations include Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Catalog
It centralizes metadata and data permissions using the AWS Glue Data Catalog.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Data sharing
It supports cross-account and cross-Region data sharing, including sharing with selected IAM principals in other accounts.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
External data sharing
Integration with AWS Data Exchange allows sharing data with external businesses without moving or copying it.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Fine-grained access
It supports access policies at database, table, column, row, and cell levels.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Partner integrations
Named third-party integrations include Starburst, Dremio, Privacera, and Collibra.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Pricing limit
Permissions created or used through integrated services are free, while integrated service usage can incur its standard charges.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Security model
AWS describes Lake Formation security as a shared responsibility: AWS protects cloud infrastructure, while customers are responsible for security in the cloud.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Storage API limit
The Storage API can be used only when no other AWS Analytics service processes the data, and scanned bytes have a 10 MB minimum billing quantity.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Tag-based controls
Lake Formation tag-based access control uses data attributes to scale permissions as data changes.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

Permissions Free Creating permissions and using them through integrated services are provided at no charge · Standard usage rates for integrated services such as Amazon S3 or AWS Glue Data Catalog apply Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Governed Tables Priced on request Charged for metadata measured by files tracked, API calls that retrieve or manipulate metadata, and bytes processed by the storage optimizer; page does not list rates Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Storage API Priced on request Charged by bytes scanned, rounded to the next megabyte, with a 10 MB minimum; page does not list a rate Can be used only when no other AWS Analytics service processes the data Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Storage optimizer Priced on request Charged by bytes processed, rounded to the next megabyte; page does not list a rate Optimizes Governed Tables by compacting small files into larger ones Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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