Chapter 14: Lake Formation – Advanced Topics
You've reached the final chapter in our journey through Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena. Some authors like to start each chapter with a thought-provoking quote. The pressure to find good, relevant quotes from well-known people was too much for us, so we opted not to employ that pattern until now. I recently came across a quote from Stephen King that does a great job distilling this chapter:
You see, many of Lake Formation's "new" features are a reimagining of well-known database technologies from the 70s and 80s but scaled up for modern data lakes. As a Lake Formation launch partner, Athena is often one of the first services to support new Lake Formation features. In this chapter, we will learn about Lake Formation's newest features, including row-level security and a new Amazon S3 table type that supports ACID transactions...