AWS Lake Formation Alternatives (September 2025)

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

AWS Control Tower provides a single location to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment to govern your AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.

Amazon Macie is a data security service that uses machine learning (ML) and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data.

Access management for AWS services and resources. Manage fine-grained permissions and analyze access to refine permissions.

AWS Resource Access Manager helps you securely share your AWS resources with other AWS accounts.

AWS Organizations enables centralized cloud account management as you grow and scale your AWS resources.

There is no other place where customers can find data files, data tables, and data APIs from a vast portfolio of third-party data sets. We continuously innovate to make the world's third-party data easy to find in one data catalog.

Provide the right data to the right people at the right time with AI-centric, secure, dynamic data access policies. All the time.

AWS Artifact provides on-demand access to select security reports, compliance reports, and agreements with AWS.

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Introducing Microsoft Purview Data Governance, a comprehensive tool leveraging AI and machine learning for more effective data visibility, data management, and data governance.

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organizations.

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs provides ML practitioners with curated, secure frameworks, dependencies, and tools to accelerate and scale deep learning in the cloud.

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that automates best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and supports automated remediation.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

Build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

AWS IoT Device Defender makes it easier to maintain, manage, and configure security policies for all your IoT devices. Get the tools to identify and respond to security issues.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal connected resources.

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

AWS IoT Device Management allows you to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.

Qubole is the open data lake company . Open, simple and secure data lakes for machine learning, streaming analytics, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.

AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale.

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport service that uses secure devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Snowball addresses challenges like high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns to migrate data as efficiently as possible.

AWS License Manager makes it easier for you to manage your software licenses from vendors, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM, across AWS and on-premises environments.

AWS Step Functions lets you orchestrate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so that you can build and update applications quickly.

Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the AI Data Cloud.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Vertica provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

Use Amazon VPC Lattice to securely connect your applications and services by defining policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring.

AWS Service Catalog helps you create and manage IaC templates approved for use on AWS so anyone can discover approved, self-service cloud resources.

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

Scale and secure apps on a FedRAMP-authorized platform designed to help the U.S. Public Sector innovate.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

Easily and securely exchange valuable datasets and analytics assets across any organizational boundary with a fully managed service.

Implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales to millions of users with Amazon Cognito, fully managed authentication service.

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

Capture, process, and store video streams & media streams for computer vision apps, smart home apps, smart city apps, and real-time video analytics.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

Amazon Personalize is an ML service that helps developers quickly build and deploy a custom recommendation engine with real-time personalization and user segmentation.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics helps you easily build Apache Flink apps, streaming Java apps, and real-time SQL queries to get real-time analytics, clickstream analytics, log analytics, event analytics, and iot analytics.

AWS Config is a config tool that helps you assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations and relationships of your resources.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

De-risk your data and deliver new value with Immuta's sensitive data discovery, security and access control, and activity monitoring.

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned PDF documents, forms, and tables.

Amazon Comprehend is a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to uncover information in unstructured data and text within documents.

AWS Deep Learning Containers are Docker images preinstalled with deep learning frameworks that make it easy to deploy custom machine learning environments.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to make heterogeneous database migrations predictable. Learn more about the supported conversions and how to download today.

DataLakeHouse.io (DLH.io) is a Data Orchestration and Data Security Platform built for People and Customer Insights. As an advanced end-to-end analytics platform it offers a suite of data tools including ELT and PII Data Security scanning, industry-specific pre-built Models using DBT and Google DataForm, combining analytics with Machine Learning to offer actionable insights and predictions for extremely effective business decision-making.

Learn how AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides you with logs of key usage to help you meet your regulatory and compliance needs.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

Amazon Comprehend Medical is a a HIPAA-eligible service that uses machine learning to extract health data from medical text.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Get more value from your data with Microsoft Fabric—an AI-powered analytics platform that unites your data and services, including data science and data lakes.

Accelerate application development with 100% serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Get 250,000 API requests free per month for 12 months.

SecureDocs is an easy-to-use virtual data room service provider that allows you to move through transactions quickly, collect deeper insight and focus on your deal.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

The Satori Data Security Platform enables faster use of data with self-service data access in a secure way.

Discover the power of data access governance and its role in driving business success. Learn how to navigate your data journey effectively with Condrey Corporation.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that unifies distributed data and automates data management and governance to power analytics at scale.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze and visualize your data to quickly act on insights from across your technology landscape. Try free today.

DoiT provides technology that simplifies and automates cloud use and multicloud expertise in analytics, optimization, and governance of cloud architecture.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Store data of any size, shape, and speed with Azure Data Lake. Power your big data analytics, develop massively parallel programs, and scale with future growth.

Monitor file sharing activity and manage access permissions for sensitive cloud data.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

Learn more about Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra compatible database service.