Additional data lake features

In this section, I will discuss additional features of AWS Data Lake administration that will be handy to manage the data lake.

User management for the AWS Data Lake

The AWS Data Lake solution comes with good user management capabilities that allow administrators to manage access to their users. Let's review the key aspects of user management.

Inviting a new user

Here are the steps to add a new user to our data lake:

1. From the navigation pane, select Users under the Administration section and then click on Invite user.

2. Enter the name, e-mail, and role.

3. A Member role has following permissions:

   • View and search for all packages in the data lake

   • Add, remove, and generate manifests for packages

   • Create, update, and delete packages created by them

   • Add and remove datasets from the packages created by them

   • Generate a secret access key if the Administrator has granted them API access

4. An Admin role has the following permissions in addition to those that a member has:

   • Create user invitations...