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Kishore Dhamodaran

Author: Kishore Dhamodaran

Kishore Dhamodaran is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS.

Interact with Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Athena and cross account fine-grained permissions using AWS Lake Formation

We recently announced support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control policies in Amazon Athena queries for data stored in any supported file format using table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi and Apache Hive. AWS Lake Formation allows you to define and enforce database, table, and column-level access policies to query Iceberg tables […]

Build an Apache Iceberg data lake using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue

March 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, […]