Fine-grained access control in Amazon EMR Serverless with AWS Lake Formation

The article discusses fine-grained access control in Amazon EMR Serverless using AWS Lake Formation, enabling organizations to enforce granular data access permissions on Iceberg tables.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Key use cases for fine-grained access control in analytics, such as customer 360, financial reporting, healthcare analytics, and supply chain optimization
• Solution overview for implementing cross-account fine-grained access control with EMR Serverless and Lake Formation
• Prerequisites and steps to set up the infrastructure in the producer and consumer accounts
• Generating TPC-DS tables in Iceberg format and granting permissions in the producer account
• Sharing the database and tables to the consumer account and creating resource links
• Granting table-level, column-level, and row-level permissions for different user personas (finance analyst and product analyst) in the consumer account
• Verifying access using interactive notebooks from EMR Studio
• Considerations and limitations, such as performance overhead and the need for multiple Spark drivers
• Clean-up steps to avoid incurring ongoing costs