AWS Lake Formation Automates Data Lake Management - SDxCentral

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched general availability of its fully-managed Lake Formation platform designed to help organizations better manage their data lakes. The service helps with the building, securing, and managing of those data repositories. Lake Formation, which was initially announced at the AWS re:Invent show late last year, is built on AWS' Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) service. It automates the provisioning and configuring of storage; crawls the data to extract schema and metadata tags; automatically optimizes the partitioning of the data; and transforms the data into formats like Apache Parquet and ORC for easier analytics. Data can be ingested from different sources using pre-defined templates.