Understanding the benefits of governed tables
The entire AWS analytics suite of services, including Athena, EMR, Glue, Redshift, and Lake Formation, continually makes building and managing data lakes on S3 easier. What used to take months with traditional data warehouses can be accomplished in days using these tools with S3. Despite all the advances in these services, customers still face difficult choices when it comes to the following:
- Ingesting streaming data such as Change-Data-Capture (CDC), click data, or application logs
- Complying with new regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
- Understanding how your data changes over time
- Adapting table storage to meet evolving usage and access patterns
In addition to the security-oriented features we discussed earlier in this chapter, Lake Formation's new governed table type takes several steps toward addressing these common sources of data lake frustration. Governed tables are a new Amazon S3 table type that supports...