AWS Lake Formation Updates

Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for AWS Lake Formation.

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TypeNew featureRegion expansion

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Region expansion

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

AWS Glue provides catalog federation for remote Iceberg REST catalogs, enabling direct and secure access to tables without data movement

AWS Glue

New feature

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

AWS Lake Formation now enables reading and writing underlying data files in Amazon S3 for tables registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog, providing a single set of permissions for both SQL queries and direct file access using existing Lake Formation table grants.