Chapter 6: AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation
Although this book focuses on Athena and its rich functionality, you should be aware of AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation. These services can be used with Athena to implement use cases that Athena cannot alone. AWS Lake Formation was created to help customers simplify creating data lakes by providing tools to help ingest data, secure data, and reduce the time it takes to get a functional data lake. Lake Formation is a layer that exists on top of AWS Glue and uses Glue's components as building blocks.
One of the main features that Lake Formation brings is fine-grained access controls and auditing to several AWS services, including Athena. Lake Formation augments AWS IAM to help secure the data lake. IAM ...
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