Category: AWS Lake Formation

Ahana provides a fully managed and easy-to-use service for running Presto on AWS, and customers like Metropolis use Ahana to query data in their Amazon S3-based data lake for business intelligence, ad-hoc analytics, and reporting. Learn how Metropolis uses AWS Lake Formation and Ahana to build a data lake that allows their analysts and data scientists to develop a simple, hands-free parking experience for their customers.

A key goal of modern data strategy, whether a data mesh, data fabric, data lake, or data warehouse, is to deliver access to data when and where it’s needed. Learn how AWS and Informatica can combine and automate data governance for access within a data marketplace. This solution combines Information’s data governance architecture and the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) which orchestrates and automates data access management with AWS Lake Formation.

As organizations continue to build data lakes on AWS and adopt Amazon EMR, especially when consuming data at enterprise scale, it’s critical to govern your data lakes by establishing federated access and having fine-grained controls to access your data. Learn how to implement SAML-based authentication (AuthN) using Okta for Amazon EMR, querying data using Zeppelin notebooks, and applying column-level authorization (AuthZ) using AWS Lake Formation.

Successful data lake implementations can serve a corporation well for years. Accenture, an APN Premier Consulting Partner, recently had an engagement with a Fortune 500 company that wanted to optimize its AWS data lake implementation. As part of the engagement, Accenture moved the customer to better-suited services and developed metrics to closely monitor the health of its overall environment in the cloud.