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Author: Manjit Chakraborty
Manjit Chakraborty is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. He is a seasoned and results-driven professional with extensive experience in the financial domain having worked with customers on advising, designing, leading, and implementing core-business enterprise solutions across the globe. In his spare time, Manjit enjoys fishing, weightlifting and spending time with his family.
Apply enterprise data governance and management using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM Identity Center
In this post, we explore a solution using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM Identity Center to address the complex challenges of managing and governing legacy data during digital transformation. We demonstrate how enterprises can effectively preserve historical data while enforcing compliance and maintaining user entitlements. This solution enables your organization to maintain robust audit trails, enforce governance controls, and provide secure, role-based access to data.
Bring your workforce identity to Amazon EMR Studio and Athena
September 2025: This post was updated for accuracy. Customers today may struggle to implement proper access controls and auditing at the user level when multiple applications are involved in data access workflows. The key challenge is to implement proper least-privilege access controls based on user identity when one application accesses data on behalf of the […]