AWS Lake Formation

AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Iceberg REST catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This capability provides direct and secure access to Iceberg tables, stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote catalogs, using AWS analytics engines.

AWS Lake Formation extends table permissions to access underlying data in Amazon S3

AWS Lake Formation now enables you to read and write the underlying data files in Amazon S3 for tables registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

AWS Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing

AWS Lake Formation now enhances cross-account sharing, allowing you to share hundreds of thousands of tables across accounts.

AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling you to centrally manage and scale fine-grained data access permissions and share data securely within and outside your organization.