The following blog post contains detailed instructions to set up Lake Formation permissions on a Hive metastore database and tables, and query them using Athena. We also illustrate a cross-account sharing use case, where a Lake Formation principal in producer account A shares a federated Hive database and tables using LF-Tag to consumer account B.
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