Enforcing fine-grained permissions on S3 data sharing using Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of setting up and managing a data lake by providing capabilities for data ingestion, organization, and access control. You can arrange your S3 data into tables within the Lake Formation Data Catalog and implement fine-grained access control on them. This means you can enforce precise access permissions at both the table and column levels, ensuring that sensitive data is safeguarded. Fine-grained access control empowers you to exercise precise control over who can view or modify specific tables and columns within the Lake Formation Data Catalog. Consequently, you can provide varying levels of access to different tables or columns, aligning with the specific requirements of different users or roles.

In this recipe, we will use Lake Formation to establish a table for an S3 dataset and provide granular access controls for it.

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