Relationship with Other Cloud Services

The following table describes the relationships between LakeFormation and other services.

**Table 1** Relationships with other services
Service Name	Relationships
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	IAM authenticates IAM users or agencies and controls some access.
Cloud Trace Service (CTS)	CTS records LakeFormation operations for query, auditing, or backtracking.
Object Storage Service (OBS)	The actual service data mapped by LakeFormation metadata is stored in the directories and files of the OBS parallel file system.
MapReduce Service (MRS)	LakeFormation interconnects with Ranger, Hive, and Spark in MRS clusters to implement unified management of lake and warehouse metadata.
GaussDB(DWS)	LakeFormation interconnects with GaussDB(DWS) to implement unified management of lake and warehouse metadata.