# Amazon Lake Formation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-lake-formation/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days, providing centralized governance and security for data stored in Amazon S3 and other AWS data stores with fine-grained access control.

## Kin Score — 59.4 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 59.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **Amazon Lake Formation Resources API** — Data lake resource management

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Lake Formation Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 4 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Lake Formation Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Lake Formation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Lake Formation Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Lake Formation Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Lake Formation Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **Data Lake Security** — Implement fine-grained access control for data stored in S3 with row and column-level security.
- **Self-Service Analytics** — Enable business users to discover and access approved data without manual provisioning.
- **Cross-Account Data Sharing** — Share data lake resources across AWS accounts and organizations.

## Tags

Access Control, Analytics, Data Governance, Data Lake, S3

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-lake-formation/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.