Simplify data lake access control for your enterprise users with trusted identity propagation in AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 Access Grants
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This article demonstrates how to simplify data lake access control for enterprise users by leveraging trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 Access Grants. It presents an end-to-end architecture and solution for managing permissions using corporate user or group identities instead of IAM roles.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview with different user personas (Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Business Analyst) accessing various AWS analytics services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight
- Prerequisites and steps to deploy the CloudFormation stack for the solution
- Setting up Lake Formation and integrating it with IAM Identity Center
- Configuring and verifying access for the different user personas:
- User1 (Data Analyst) using Athena with IAM Identity Center enabled workgroup and S3 Access Grants
- User2 (Data Engineer) using EMR Studio notebook with Lake Formation and S3 Access Grants
- User3 (Business Analyst) using Redshift Query Editor V2 and QuickSight with Lake Formation integration
- Auditing data access using CloudTrail events and CloudTrail Lake
- Conclusion and additional resources
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