Best Practices

After creating a LakeFormation instance, you can try some best practices provided by LakeFormation to meet your service requirements.

**Table 1** Common best practices
Practice		Description
Interconnection with open-source components	Configuring LakeFormation to Interconnect with Open-Source Spark	This practice walks through the steps to connect LakeFormation to open source Spark and offers the following secondary development examples. Custom authentication information retrieval class: used to obtain IAM authentication credentials for accessing LakeFormation. Custom user information retrieval class: used to obtain the identity of the user currently accessing LakeFormation.
Interconnection with open-source components	Configuring LakeFormation to Interconnect with Open-Source Hive	This practice walks through the steps to connect LakeFormation to open source Hive and offers the following secondary development examples. Custom authentication information retrieval class: used to obtain IAM authentication credentials for accessing LakeFormation. Custom user information retrieval class: used to obtain the identity of the user currently accessing LakeFormation.