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Vijay K.
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Vijay K.
Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One of the best tool for consolidation of portfolio information from across the sources"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

it is one of the comprehensive data lake and data catalogue and ingesting platform, it does not only consolidate and provide a unique view across the portfolio but one of comprehensive ways of getting the outcomes derived snippets out of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

lot of emphasis is given on one who knows AWS other suits can integrate it well than the other interoperable ones. But difficult to integrate with others but to its native ones its best for all AWS solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bimarsh P.
BP
Bimarsh P.
Data Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Handy for centrally managing data integrations, meta data management and managing permissions."
4/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

Fast up and running for moving into the datalake. UI controlled setup makes it easy for the developers to make datalake up and running without the need of managing various infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

At the first glance, UI is little confusing like the use of crawler and job is somehow confusing for some users until all of the concepts involved are fully understood by the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

priyanshu b.
PB
priyanshu b.
Senior Technical Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data lake setup made easier with AWS Lake Formation service"
4/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

It helps to create a data lake very easy. We just need to specify the data source, it will start pulling up data from that. It also stores data in the back end into new S3 tables which supports ACID. In the backend data will be stored in parquet and orc format which would make data analytics much more faster and efficient. Also data catalog is a super idea which would help analytics team to choose their most preferred dataset. Also we can set access control over data catalog tables. It has integration with all latest services like AWS EMR, spark, Athena, redshift which make it more attractive to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

This service has some functionalities similar to AWS glue which makes it difficult to choose from. It would be great if they can integrate both services well so that user can use any of those. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit N.
RN
Rohit N.
Lead Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 12/23/2021
"Fastest way to get onboard with Data Lake!!"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

It's easy to use and very fast to build a data lake structure for your organization using AWS Lake formation. It simplifies the security policies aspect of data ingestion and the data from multiple sources to Amazon S3. Users can further clean the data using a host of other connected AWS services like Redshift, glue, and Athena. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

There are no such drawbacks of the Service except the pricing, whereas if your organization has data of over petabyte-scale and higher, it can cost a lot to the organization in the long run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sudip A.
SA
Sudip A.
Technical Writer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 2/24/2022
"Setting up Data lake has never been this easy."
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

We have been using it as cloud data warehouse for storing raw data from our servers. I like its ability to sync data lake with the ecosystem of AWS making it easy to moving our data into s3, redshift for data analysis and audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

It is not user-friendly for the end-user, and there are not many tutorials to look up in case of trouble. The support system is way costlier if you need any technical support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sourav H.
SH
Sourav H.
Junior Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Data lakes"
3.5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

The term 'Lake' is very analogous to the service provided. Amazon Lake Formation is an entire suite that helps from processing data to enabling data abstraction at several levels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

The solutions provided need to improve in terms of data orchestration. The complexity also increases along with the type of dataset. There could be some improvements such as image processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yuvraj S.
YS
Yuvraj S.
Data Scientist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It's very helpful service to build secure data pipelines."
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

First it's a secure which complete the main requirements in today's time, also it has addition functionality which ease the effort of developers to develop and deploye. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

Nothing much, price was the issue in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sramaika C.
Endpoint Security Analyst & DLP Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Ease of setup"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

Easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

delete and recreating a user is an issue and all good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality
UH
Verified User in Hospitality
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent tool for Analytic"
4.5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

AWS Lake is a quick, reliable, easy to use, and secure tool to manage & store the data for n number of reasons like analytics, decision making .. Earlier, Setting up and managing data lakes was complicated and time-consuming tasks and involved lots of manual steps, but AWS Lake made it very easy, now we can setup data lake in few days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

Managing it, is bit costly and need expert to manage it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjeeb M.
SM
Sanjeeb M.
Technical Architect - Data and Analytics
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome Lakeformation"
5/5
What do you like best about AWS Lake Formation?

Lake formation made easy to manage data security easy and flexible way in AWS data lake solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lake Formation?

It does not have integration with custom databases configured in AWS as IaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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