Ahana has announced Ahana Cloud for Presto’s deep integration with AWS Lake Formation to enable data platform teams to quickly set up a secure data lake and run ad hoc analytics on that data lake with Presto, the de facto SQL query engine for data lakes.

With this integration, AWS users can integrate Presto natively with AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation and Amazon S3, seamlessly bringing Presto to their existing AWS stack. In addition to Presto, the launch of the AWS Lake Formation partner program showcases the ability for data platform teams to get unified governance on the data lake for many other compute engines like Apache Spark and ETL-focused managed services in addition to the already supported AWS native services like Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR.

The Ahana Cloud and AWS Lake Formation integration has already opened up new use cases for customers. One use case centers around making Presto accessible to internal data practitioners like data engineers and data scientists, who can then in turn develop downstream artifacts (e.g. models, dashboards).

Another use case is exposing the data platform to external clients, which is how Ahana customer Metropolis is leveraging the integration. In Metropolis’ case, they can provide their external customers transparency into internal operational data and metrics, enabling them to provide an exceptional customer experience.

Ahana Cloud for Presto on AWS Lake Formation is now available.