Category: AWS Lake Formation

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy.  Organizations of all sizes have recognized that data is one of the key enablers to increase and sustain innovation, and drive value for their customers and business units. They are eagerly modernizing traditional data platforms with cloud-native technologies that are highly scalable, feature-rich, and cost-effective. As you […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. We announced the general availability of AWS Lake Formation transactions, cell-level and row-level security, and acceleration at AWS re: Invent 2021. In this post, we focus on cell-level and row-level security and show you how to enforce business needs by restricting access to specific rows. Effective data […]

In this post, we briefly walk through the most common design patterns adapted by enterprises to build lake house solutions to support their business agility in a multi-tenant model using the AWS Lake Formation cross-account feature to enable a multi-account strategy for line of business (LOB) accounts to produce and consume data from your data […]

Maintaining customer data privacy, protection against intellectual property loss, and compliance with data protection laws are essential objectives of today’s organizations. To protect data against security threats, vulnerabilities within the organization, malicious software, or cyber criminality, organizations are increasingly encrypting their data. Although you can enable server-side encryption in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), […]

Many useful business insights can arise from analyzing customer preferences, behavior, and usage patterns. With this information, businesses can innovate faster and improve the customer experience, leading to better engagement and accelerating product adoption. More and more businesses are looking for ways to securely store and restrict access to customer data, which may include personally […]

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. This is a joint blog post co-authored with Anu Jain, Graham Person, and Paul Conroy from JP Morgan Chase.  Most modern organizations recognize that their data benefits their entire enterprise. Data has value to the individual business process that produces it, but data’s additional potential can be […]

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that helps you build, secure, and manage data lakes, and provide access control for data in the data lake. Customers across lines of business (LOBs) need a way to manage granular access permissions for different users at the table and column level. Lake Formation helps you manage […]

This post is co-written with Damian Grech from FanDuel FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the US, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit […]

When deploying data lakes on AWS, you can use multiple AWS accounts to better separate different projects or lines of business. In this post, we see how the AWS Lake Formation cross-account capabilities simplify securing and managing distributed data lakes across multiple accounts through a centralized approach, providing fine-grained access control to the AWS Glue […]

This is a guest blog post by AWS partner Aspire Ventures As we enter winter, with fewer options to be outdoors, our personal choices can impact our risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus even more. The New England Journal of Medicine publication showed real-world examples of the effectiveness of masks and social distancing in mitigating […]