AWS Lake Formation extends table permissions to access underlying data in Amazon S3
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This article announces AWS Lake Formation's new capability to read and write underlying S3 data files for Glue Data Catalog tables using existing table permissions.
- Lake Formation provides temporary, scoped S3 credentials based on table permissions
- SELECT permissions grant read access; SUPER permissions grant read/write access
- Built-in support for Amazon EMR 7.13 and later
- Enables direct file access for Spark jobs, model training, and feature engineering
- Integrates with Apache Spark and Trino via APIs or open source plugin
- All access logged in CloudTrail for unified audit trail
- Available at no additional charge in all Lake Formation regions
Lake Formation now unifies permissions for both SQL queries and direct S3 file access, simplifying data access management.
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