Category: AWS Lake Formation

Many organizations use external identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta or Microsoft Azure Active Directory to manage their enterprise user identities. These users interact with and run analytical queries across AWS analytics services. To enable them to use the AWS services, their identities from the external IdP are mapped to AWS Identity and Access Management […]

In this post, we show you how to use the new views feature the AWS Glue Data Catalog. SQL views are a powerful object used across relational databases. You can use views to decrease the time to insights of data by tailoring the data that is queried. Additionally, you can use the power of SQL […]

This is a guest post co-authored with Kanehito Miyake, Engineer at Fujitsu Japan.  Fujitsu Limited was established in Japan in 1935. Currently, we have approximately 120,000 employees worldwide (as of March 2023), including group companies. We develop business in various regions around the world, starting with Japan, and provide digital services globally. To provide a […]

To enable your workforce users for analytics with fine-grained data access controls and audit data access, you might have to create multiple AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles with different data permissions and map the workforce users to one of those roles. Multiple users are often mapped to the same role where they need […]

Last week, we announced the general availability of the integration between HAQM DataZone and AWS Lake Formation hybrid access mode. In this post, we share how this new feature helps you simplify the way you use HAQM DataZone to enable secure and governed sharing of your data in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. We also […]

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. However, altering schema and table partitions in traditional data lakes can be a disruptive and time-consuming task, requiring renaming or recreating entire tables and reprocessing large datasets. […]

This post is cowritten with Amy Tseng, Jack Lin and Regis Chow from BMO. BMO is the 8th largest bank in North America by assets. It provides personal and commercial banking, global markets, and investment banking services to 13 million customers. As they continue to implement their Digital First strategy for speed, scale and the […]

This post is co-written with Toney Thomas and Ben Vengerovsky from Bluestone. In the ever-evolving world of finance and lending, the need for real-time, reliable, and centralized data has become paramount. Bluestone, a leading financial institution, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and transition to a data-driven organization. In this post, […]

Many customers are extending their data warehouse capabilities to their data lake with HAQM Redshift. They are looking to further enhance their security posture where they can enforce access policies on their data lakes based on HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). Furthermore, they are adopting security models that require access to the data lake […]

Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) to authenticate users, manage their attributes, and group memberships for secure, efficient, and centralized identity management. You might be modernizing your data architecture using HAQM Redshift to enable access to your data lake and data in your data warehouse, and are looking for a centralized and scalable way to […]