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Category: AWS Lake Formation

Getting started with AWS Lake Formation

June 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Lake Formation enables you to set up a secure data lake. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository storing all your structured and unstructured data, at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having first to structure it. And […]

Integrate and deduplicate datasets using AWS Lake Formation FindMatches

AWS Lake Formation FindMatches is a new machine learning (ML) transform that enables you to match records across different datasets as well as identify and remove duplicate records, with little to no human intervention. FindMatches is part of Lake Formation, a new AWS service that helps you build a secure data lake in a few simple steps.

To use FindMatches, you don’t have to write code or know how ML works. Your data doesn’t have to include a unique identifier, nor must fields match exactly.