# AWS Lake Formation

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

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, secure, and manage data lakes. It simplifies and automates many of the complex manual steps usually required to create data lakes, including collecting, cleansing, cataloging, and securely sharing data, with centralized governance and fine-grained access control across your analytics and machine learning services.

## Kin Score — 50.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 50.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## 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)

- **AWS Lake Formation Databases API** — Data Catalog database management

## Agentic access (1)

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

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Lakeformation Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **Enterprise Data Lake** — Build a centralized data lake with governed access for analytics teams.
- **Data Mesh** — Implement a data mesh architecture with cross-account data sharing and governance.
- **Compliance Governance** — Enforce data access policies for GDPR, HIPAA, and other compliance requirements.

## Tags

Analytics, Data Lake, Governance

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