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Apply enterprise data governance and management using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM Identity Center

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This article discusses a solution to manage and govern legacy data during digital transformation using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM Identity Center. It demonstrates how enterprises can effectively preserve historical data while enforcing compliance and maintaining user entitlements.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Overview of the solution architecture
  • Prerequisites and steps to configure identity and access management with IAM Identity Center
  • Creating a data ingestion and processing pipeline using AWS DMS and AWS Glue
  • Configuring the data lake and entitlement access using AWS Lake Formation
  • Logging in with federated access using Entra ID
  • Performing data analytics and running queries in Amazon Athena
  • Clean-up steps to remove the resources created
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the solution


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