Reduce AWS Lake Formation costs with these tips

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AWS Lake Formation cost saving tips

Optimize your AWS Lake Formation costs with these tips

Data Optimization

Optimize large dataset storage costs in Amazon S3 by using Lake Formation's data optimization features like partitioning, compression, and columnar storage.

Access Review

Regularly examine Lake Formation's access policies and permissions to identify any unnecessary and unused access that can be removed to reduce costs.

Easy Access Control

Use Lake Formation's feature to apply access controls across multiple accounts from a central place. This reduces manual effort and costs by ensuring consistent data access governance.

Service information & pricing

About AWS Lake Formation

About AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation is an analytical service offering centralized management of permissions, and secure data sharing for analytics and machine learning. It aids in handling fine-grained data lake access permissions, simplifying security and governance. It allows users to acquire insights from securely shared data internally and externally, and ensures data access monitoring and compliance through auditing. This service eases the scaling of data access.

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AWS Lake Formation pricing

AWS Lake Formation pricing has three components - Storage API, Governed Tables, and the storage optimizer. The Storage API charges per byte scanned, rounded up to next MB with a minimum of 10MB; costs can be less using file formats like Parquet and ORC. Governed Tables charges are based on the number of tracked metadata files, relevant API calls, and data processed by the storage optimizer. The storage optimizer charges per byte processed for reconfiguring Governed Tables.

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