AWS Lake Formation Reviews

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution as a cloud data warehouse.

What other advice do I have?

Our company does not have a business relationship with AWS. We're just a customer. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. The thing is that we are not forcing the end-user or the project team to deploy the application. They have the liberty to choose their own platform. Either they can go with AWS or they can go with Azure. Most of the projects which are deployed on non-Windows OS tend to go for AWS. My area of expertise is more in the auditing of the security standards and maintaining the security requirements as per the industry standard. I'm more in a security architect…

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution in order to build infrastructure. It's basically for building network infrastructure.

What other advice do I have?

We're strictly customers of AWS. We're end-users. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. My advice to other organizations would be to not think of this solution as a one-time activity. It's an ongoing thing. It's a big change and there will new services and therefore it's constantly changing. You have to make sure that it's part and parcel of your everyday operations. The solution is pretty stable, or stable in the long run. However, every single day there is a need to grow the infrastructure, or there are new services being added externally and internally. You deploy more…

What is our primary use case?

In general, our clients use this as storage for raw data coming from systems. Our experience is that from the raw data you have to build up the data lake like a data warehouse. It's quite easy to pass from S3, for example, to Redshift. We used the data lake on AWS to store raw data and in some other cases to process advanced analytics. But the main use case here is storing raw data or archiving some data.

What other advice do I have?

On a scale of one to ten, I would give AWS Lake Formation a nine. In our experience, this AWS solution is one of the main players now on the market in this field. Additionally, because they can connect the offer in terms of infrastructure and software, sometimes you can combine the price and discount of infrastructure and software. This could be an advantage for clients.