As AI and other technologies accelerate demand for data and consequently, more users require access to this data to leverage its potential and drive innovation. Leading organizations leverage platforms like Amazon Athena in order to make that data available for analysis. But often, they must navigate the complexity of governing such massive volumes of structured and unstructured data.
With Immuta’s support for AWS Lake Formation, you can bypass governance challenges so that users can access data in Athena and Amazon S3 with unmatched security and ease. Together, Immuta and Amazon Athena help ensure that as demands for data scale, so does secure accessibility.
Why choose Amazon Athena?
Amazon Athena simplifies the way businesses interact with their data by serving as a serverless query tool that removes the need for complicated setups. Whether you’re diving into IoT logs, customer data, or operational insights, Athena offers a straightforward way to get answers fast.
Customers trust Amazon Athena to easily query data directly in Amazon S3 – regardless of the size of the dataset – using SQL. It’s a user-friendly (and budget-friendly) way to scale operations and put massive amounts of data to use.
The Amazon Athena data governance challenge
Even with tools like Amazon Athena, accessing data securely and ensuring compliance often slows down progress. In a survey of 700+ data professionals, 57% reported that when security processes delay access, data users resort to workarounds in order to get the data they need.
In today’s decentralized and hybrid environments, managing access permissions across teams and platforms can be complex. Relying on manual processes is simply not feasible or sustainable enough to handle modern organizations’ speed and scale. This can leave businesses stuck in a trade-off between speed and security.
How Immuta simplifies Amazon Athena data governance
Immuta reduces the stress of managing data access, so you can focus on putting your data to work quickly. By supporting AWS Lake Formation, Immuta works in sync with Athena, simplifying access controls and ensuring compliance without slowing you down.
With Immuta and Amazon Athena, you’ll benefit from:
- Smart access policies: Define who can see what data with easy-to-understand rules that apply across platforms automatically.
- Time-saving automation: Reduce manual approvals and get users to the data they need faster.
- Cross-platform control: Consistently enforce policies across all connected data platforms and compute engines.
- Complete visibility: Keep track of data usage and policy enforcement across all connected platforms, so you can stay compliant and confident.
- Scalable governance: Whether your team is small or global, Immuta’s dynamic controls and automated features make managing access simple and efficient.
Together, Athena and Immuta help you turn your data into a strategic advantage, no matter your industry or use case.