Bring your workforce identity to Amazon EMR Studio and Athena
Big Data Blog
This article discusses how to bring your workforce identity to Amazon EMR Studio and Athena, enabling users to access these analytics services using their existing corporate credentials. Specifically, the article covers:
- Integrating Okta with AWS IAM Identity Center to sync users and groups
- Integrating IAM Identity Center with EMR Studio and assigning user groups
- Setting up AWS Lake Formation with IAM Identity Center to propagate workforce identities
- Configuring granular role-based entitlements using Lake Formation
- Setting up Athena workgroups and Amazon S3 access grants for access governance
- Accessing EMR Studio and running queries with the propagated identities
- Reviewing the end-to-end audit trail of workforce identities
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