Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability AUG 13, 2019 3 MIN READ by Steef-Jan Wiggers Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation , a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes. With AWS Lake Formation customers can simplify and automate many of the complicated manual steps usually required to create a data lake, including collecting, cleaning, and cataloging data, and securely making that data available for analytics. Amazon first introduced AWS Lake Formation at AWS re:Invent conference, held last November in Las Vegas, and allowed customers to sign up for a preview. Now customers can leverage AWS Lake Formation fully as a generally available service. By using AWS Lake Formation, customers can bring data into a data lake from a range of sources using pre-defined templates. Next, they can then define policies to govern access by different groups within the organizati