# AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin
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**Description**: Grants administrative access to AWS Lake Formation and related services, such as AWS Glue, to manage data lakes

`AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: August 08, 2019, 17:33 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:02 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v6 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "AWSLakeFormationDataAdminAllow",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "lakeformation:*",
        "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents",
        "glue:CreateCatalog",
        "glue:UpdateCatalog",
        "glue:DeleteCatalog",
        "glue:GetCatalog",
        "glue:GetCatalogs",
        "glue:GetDatabase",
        "glue:GetDatabases",
        "glue:CreateDatabase",
        "glue:UpdateDatabase",
        "glue:DeleteDatabase",
        "glue:GetConnections",
        "glue:SearchTables",
        "glue:GetTable",
        "glue:CreateTable",
        "glue:UpdateTable",
        "glue:DeleteTable",
        "glue:GetTableVersions",
        "glue:GetPartitions",
        "glue:GetTables",
        "glue:ListWorkflows",
        "glue:BatchGetWorkflows",
        "glue:DeleteWorkflow",
        "glue:GetWorkflowRuns",
        "glue:StartWorkflowRun",
        "glue:GetWorkflow",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:GetBucketAcl",
        "iam:ListUsers",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AWSLakeFormationDataAdminDeny",
      "Effect" : "Deny",
      "Action" : [
        "lakeformation:PutDataLakeSettings"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)