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AWS Lake Formation

Learn about Lake Formation

Managing and scaling data access is complex and time consuming. Learn how AWS Lake Formation can help you centrally manage and scale fine-grained data access permissions and share data with confidence within and outside your organization.

Benefits of Lake Formation

Manage fine-grained data lake access permissions using familiar database-like features.
Simplify security management and governance for your users at scale.
Quickly gain deeper insights from data securely shared with internal and external users.
Monitor your data access and help achieve compliance with comprehensive data auditing.

Use cases

Manage permissions using familiar database-like features

Centralize permissions management for data resources, including databases and tables, from one place in the AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Learn more about the AWS Glue Data Catalog

Govern and help secure your data at scale

Scale permissions across your users by setting attributes on data and applying attribute permissions.
Learn more about tag-based access controls

Simplify data sharing inside and outside your organization

Encourage innovation by allowing users to quickly find, appropriately access, and share data with confidence in accordance with your goals and policies.
Learn more about data sharing

Monitor access and improve compliance with auditing

Proactively address data challenges and protect your business with comprehensive data-access auditing.
Learn more about data-access auditing