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AWS Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing

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This article announces AWS Lake Formation's enhanced cross-account sharing capabilities, enabling large-scale multi-account analytics with centralized permissions management.

  • Share hundreds of thousands of tables across AWS accounts seamlessly
  • Centralize permissions for catalogs, databases, and tables at scale
  • Share with IAM principals, accounts, AWS Organizations, and organizational units
  • Single resource share supports unlimited tables per account
  • Eliminates previous resource association limits per resource type
  • Upgrade to cross-account version 5 via console or API
  • New grants use wildcard patterns instead of individual associations
  • All existing shares and APIs remain fully compatible

Lake Formation now simplifies cross-account data sharing for enterprise analytics environments requiring fine-grained access controls.

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