AWS Big Data Blog
Category: AWS Lake Formation
Enable cross-cloud analytics with Amazon S3 Tables and Google BigQuery, Part 2: access control with Lake Formation
In Part 2 of this series, connect Google BigQuery to Amazon S3 Tables using AWS Lake Formation credential vending. Lake Formation manages fine-grained permissions and issues short-lived, scoped credentials to external engines, so you can centrally govern which teams and query engines read your Iceberg tables on AWS without managing IAM policies for every consumer.
Scaling fine-grained access control for enterprise lakehouse using SageMaker Unified Studio and AWS Lake Formation
As enterprise lakehouses grow to thousands of tables across business domains and regions, fine-grained access control becomes a governance bottleneck. This post shows how to combine AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation tag-based access control, and trusted identity propagation in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for automated, auditable, least-privilege access.
Automate creating AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS SDK for data mesh use case
This post shows you how to use the Catalog objects API CreateTable() to programmatically create ATHENA and SPARK dialects using cross-account IAM definer roles, and how to add the ATHENA dialect programmatically for the views that were created earlier with only SPARK dialect.
Zero Copy access to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 from Salesforce Data 360 using the Iceberg REST endpoint from AWS Glue Data Catalog
In this post, we demonstrate how AWS and Salesforce customers can access their enterprise data lakes on AWS from Salesforce Data 360 using zero-copy file federation.
How BigBasket uses the Iceberg based lakehouse architecture on AWS to power lightning-fast grocery delivery across India
In this post, we demonstrate how BigBasket implemented the lakehouse architecture on AWS, including their architecture decisions, implementation approach, and the measurable business results you can expect from a similar modernization. Whether you’re facing scalability challenges or planning your own lakehouse implementation, this blueprint provides actionable insights you can adapt for your organization.
Deploy modern data platforms in minutes with MDAA
In this post, we explore how MDAA transforms data architecture development from months of manual coding to production-ready deployment through configuration-driven infrastructure and embedded governance, examine a real customer transformation, and provide a clear implementation pathway for your own data modernization journey.
Access Amazon S3 data files directly using AWS Lake Formation permissions
In this post, we demonstrate reading from and writing to Lake Formation-managed S3 locations using Apache Spark jobs from EMR. Lake Formation credential vending for S3 location access is available in EMR release label 7.13 and later, Boto3 1.42.29 and later, AWS Java SDK 2.41.32 and later, and AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2.33.1 and later.
Securing client confidentiality at scale: Automated data discovery and governed analytics for legal workloads
In this post, we show you a reference architecture that automates sensitive data discovery across legal document repositories on Amazon Web Services (AWS), demonstrate how to capture structured findings as a compliance dataset, and guide you through building a governed analytics workspace that maintains your security boundaries. You walk away with a practical model for building security and analytics into the same lifecycle, without moving documents outside their system of record.
How Twilio secured their multi-engine query platform with AWS Lake Formation
Twilio is a cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs and tools for developers to easily integrate voice, messaging, email, video, and other communication features into their applications and customer engagement workflows. In this blog series we discuss how we built a multi-engine query platform at Twilio. The first part introduces the use case that led us to build a new platform and why we selected Amazon Athena alongside our open-source Presto implementation. This second part discusses how Twilio’s query infrastructure platform integrates with AWS Lake Formation to provide fine-grained access control to all their data.
Implement a data mesh pattern in Amazon SageMaker Catalog without changing applications
In this post, we walk through simulating a scenario based on data producer and data consumer that exists before Amazon SageMaker Catalog adoption. We use a sample dataset to simulate existing data and an existing application using an AWS Lambda function, then implement a data mesh pattern using Amazon SageMaker Catalog while keeping your current data repositories and consumer applications unchanged.









