AWS Lake Formation Insights

What is AWS Lake Formation?

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that makes it easy to set up, secure, and manage data lakes. It simplifies and automates many of the complex manual steps usually required to build a data lake, including collecting, cleaning, transforming, and cataloging data, and making it available for analytics and machine learning. Common uses include centralizing data from various sources into a secure, governed repository for business intelligence, reporting, and advanced analytics.

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What other technologies are related to AWS Lake Formation?

AWS Lake Formation Complementary Technologies

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that's often used to prepare and transform data for use with Lake Formation. It provides the metadata catalog that Lake Formation uses.

mentioned alongside AWS Lake Formation in 6% (3.7k) of relevant job posts

AWS Athena

AWS Athena is a serverless query service that can directly query data stored in the data lake managed by Lake Formation.

mentioned alongside AWS Lake Formation in 5% (2.4k) of relevant job posts

AWS Redshift

AWS Redshift can consume data prepared and governed by Lake Formation for analytical workloads. Lake formation helps to govern the data and define the access roles that Redshift can use.

mentioned alongside AWS Lake Formation in 2% (2.6k) of relevant job posts