Follow these steps to grant AWS Lake Formation permissions on one or more resource links to a principal in your AWS account.
After you create a resource link, only you can view and access it. (This assumes that
Use only IAM access control for new tables in this database is not
enabled for the database.) To permit other principals in your account to access the
resource link, grant at least the DESCRIBE permission.
Important
Granting permissions on a resource link doesn't grant permissions on the target (linked) database or table. You must grant permissions on the target separately.
You can grant permissions by using the Lake Formation console, the API, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
To grant resource link permissions using the Lake Formation console
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Do one of the following:
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For database resource links, follow the steps in Granting database permissions using the named resource method. to do the following:
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Open the Grant data lake permissions page.
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Specify the databases. Specify one or more database resource links.
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Specify principals.
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For table resource links, follow the steps in Granting table permissions using the named resource method to do the following:
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Open the Grant data lake permissions page.
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Specify tables. Specify one or more table resource links.
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Specify principals.
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Under Permissions, select the permissions to grant. Optionally, select grantable permissions.
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Choose Grant.
