AWS Lake Formation Reviews

Name: AWS Lake Formation
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

5 reviews
75% willing to recommend

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AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis.

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AWS Lake Formation is the #12 ranked solution in top Cloud Data Warehouse solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Lake Formation an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. AWS Lake Formation is most commonly compared to Azure Data Factory: AWS Lake Formation vs Azure Data Factory. AWS Lake Formation is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 73% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Vishal Dhamke

Vice President Application Security North America at BNP Paribas

Sep 23, 2020

The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant. For AWS, currently, we are facing the challenge when previewing. On AWS, we have set up a scanner instance with a Nexus scanner. For some reason, the scanner instance has been set up on AWS so that if it's in one region or maybe if it is deployed on one subnet, the other subnet is not reachable within the same region. The scanner is not reachable to the different subnets. For example, if there is a subnet A where the scanner is deployed, and if we want to scan the subnet B within the same region, the scanner is not reachable due to the fact that it's in Subnet A. That's a problem we are currently facing and trying to troubleshoot that.

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reviewer2290962

VP- Cloud Data/ Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 9, 2023

There are significant challenges when dealing with external applications, and vendors, or pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy because AWS Lake Formation is specific to AWS and does not integrate seamlessly with third-party services or other cloud providers. Another limitation is that Lake Formation might not offer out-of-the-box automated reporting, so you may need to create your solutions for tracking and reporting on permissions granted to users. It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data.

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Vikrant Singh

Large Account Manager at Almoayyed Computers

Aug 7, 2023

We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse. Customers choose to go with AWS Lake Formation because it's a cloud-based solution, and customers don't want to invest in on-premises hardware and software AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper. I have been working with AWS Lake…

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AWS Lake Formation market share

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS Lake Formation in the Cloud Data Warehouse category stands at 5.3%, marking a decrease of 42.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
"We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them."

Room for Improvement

"It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data."
"AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper."
"For the end-users, it's not as user-friendly as it could be."