Updated on 2025-07-25 GMT+08:00

What is LakeFormation?

DataArts Lake Formation (LakeFormation) is a one-stop enterprise-level data lake building service.

It adopts a storage-compute decoupling architecture and provides GUIs and APIs for unified lake metadata management. It is compatible with Hive metadata models and Ranger permission models and can interconnect with compute engines and big data cloud services, such as MapReduce Service (MRS),Data Lake Insight (DLI), ModelArts, DataArts Studio, and GaussDB(DWS). LakeFormation helps you to easily and efficiently build data lakes and operation services, accelerating the release of service data value.

LakeFormation is a serverless service that uses underlying resources to implement cross-AZ deployment, high reliability, auto scaling, unified metadata management, association between metadata and file directories, and interconnection with multiple compute engines.