Home icon

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

Big Data Blog



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


Go to article

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.

Related articles

Sep 26
2024
Apply enterprise data governance and management using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM Identity Center
Dec 4
2024
Enforce fine-grained access control on data lake tables using AWS Glue 5.0 integrated with AWS Lake Formation
Jun 30
2025
Enforce table level access control on data lake tables using AWS Glue 5.0 with AWS Lake Formation
Feb 15
2024
Simplify access management with Amazon Redshift and AWS Lake Formation for users in an External Identity Provider

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.