Analytics
RecognitionAWS Lake Formation
Centralized creation, permission management, and governance for data lakes.
Key points
- Lake Formation grants fine-grained lake access while the Glue Data Catalog stores metadata and S3 stores objects.
Best-known use cases
- Govern analyst access to curated S3 datasets.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Lake Formation governs lake permissions; Glue catalogs and transforms data.
Key takeaway
Choose Lake Formation for centralized data-lake governance.
Related services
- AWS Glue
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Athena
Relevant exam tasks
- D3.5