Centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics and machine learning

Benefits of Lake Formation

Manage permissions

Manage fine-grained data lake access permissions using familiar database-like features.

Scaled management

Simplify security management and governance for your users at scale.

Deeper insights

Quickly gain deeper insights from data securely shared with internal and external users.

Data auditing

Monitor your data access and help achieve compliance with comprehensive data auditing.

Use cases

Manage permissions using familiar database-like features

Centralize permissions management for data resources, including databases and tables, from one place in the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

Govern and help secure your data at scale

Scale permissions across your users by setting attributes on data and applying attribute permissions.

Simplify data sharing inside and outside your organization

Encourage innovation by allowing users to quickly find, appropriately access, and share data with confidence in accordance with your goals and policies.

Monitor access and improve compliance with auditing

Proactively address data challenges and protect your business with comprehensive data-access auditing.