Hello and welcome to this course on - "Securing and Sharing Data Lake data using AWS Lake Formation". This course is primarily a deep dive into the AWS Lake Formation Service, which is one of the essential pillars for data lakes on AWS. Prior to the launch of Lake Formation and its database-style fine grained permissions for data lakes, one had to manage access to the data in the data lake and its metadata separately through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and S3 bucket policies. This was relatively much more complex and also less granular compared to Lake Formation.

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that simplifies the cumbersome process of securing and managing data lakes, hence streamlining Data Management and enabling improved Data Discovery along with enhanced Security. In this course you will get to learn and experiment (via Practical hands-on exercises) the key components of Lake Formation and how to use it to securely share the DataLake data to different personas (having varied use-cases on the DataLake). In this course you will also get to learn about the Lake Formation Hybrid Access mode feature which was launched in the recent past (September, 2023), and that it enables data administrators to onboard Lake Formation permissions selectively and incrementally.