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

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AWS·4 weeks ago · Jun 11, 2026, 04:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Lake Formation now grants read/write access to underlying S3 data for tables in the Glue Data Catalog via existing table permissions.
Provides temporary, scoped credentials for registered S3 locations; SELECT grants read, SUPER grants read/write, with built‑in support in EMR 7.13+.
All file‑level access is logged to CloudTrail and can be used from Spark, Trino, or via the open‑source plugin, at no extra cost.

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