AWS Lake Formation Reviews & Product Details

Simple data lake setup

Integration with AWS

Automated data cataloging

Easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complexity in the initial setup

High cost

Less compatible with non-AWS services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This Data Lake service provided by AWS simplifies security and procurement with the cloud features. It is available in almost all the AWS regions, which helps us to have full availability and scalable solution for the Data Lake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The limitation of filtering table metadata is one of the known issues from the AWS offered service. There have been issues with renaming an excluded column. There has been some issues with deletion of the columns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lake Formation is built on top our S3 Delta Lake tables.

We've Lake formation so that we can control the access to tables and only serve the data that a specific project requires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we can control the access to tables and only serve the data

So that it would be easy to use delta tables

Better than delta lake to use the delta tables required for current project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lake Formation is quite useful to form a centralized data lake in a secure manner.

It provides sophisticated ways to address structure and unstructured data lake storage including security, access control, governance, and performance.

Furthermore, AWS lake formation is quite useful for analytics, reporting, and storing data that are not used frequently.

I undoubtedly like the below feature

Data is easily accessible

More secure, not to worry about data loss.

Enabling better data Analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It requires significant setup and maintenance while using Apache Spark functionality to process data from the data lake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As I'm working a Data Analytics Engineer, Lake Formation helped me a lot in model control and data access whenever I'm using it AWS services to work though the cloud for data pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's limitations basically, one of them is regional availability.

On top of that it has some integration issues with other AWS services as well. There're lot of manual settings are which is sometimes hard to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Feature like would be protection and securing data and data sharing. Data lake, lake formation.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No nothing comes in mind but integrating it with data tool like ha do op was challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great Service by AWS to make sure your Data is secured and prepared for analysis without any hassles and at a centralized location. We can keep our data safe which is not used frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It requires a lot of effort to set it up manually which is one time task, but expensive and needs extra over seeing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Simplified data lake set up

2.centralize data catalog

3.Fine grained access control

4.Data lake permission management

5.Data transformation capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike about AWS lake formation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lake Formation is helping to read the data source like database and importing the data to destination data lake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike about AWS Lake Formation except it's pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is fast and I can set rules as per my requirement. We can look at the version history of our data using delta lake by utilizing the logs created by each operation on the data in_delta_log table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost could be a factor which i feel is a bit in the pricier end as the Delta lake source code has been made open source by databricks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.