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Access Amazon S3 data files directly using AWS Lake Formation permissions

calendar_today June 12, 2026 person Aarthi Srinivasan domain aws-glue

In this post, we demonstrate reading from and writing to Lake Formation-managed S3 locations using Apache Spark jobs from EMR. Lake Formation credential vending for S3 location access is available in EMR release label 7.13 and later, Boto3 1.42.29 and later, AWS Java SDK 2.41.32 and later, and AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2.33.1 and later.

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