AWS Big Data Blog

Aakash Pradeep, Venkatram Bondugula

Author: Aakash Pradeep, Venkatram Bondugula

Diagram of Twilio's AWS data query platform showing user access requests flowing through ServiceNow and LF-Tag validation before queries reach Amazon Athena via Odin EC2 instances.

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.