AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin

Summary

Grants administrative access to AWS Lake Formation and related services, such as AWS Glue, to manage data lakes

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdminCopy ARN

Default version

v6

Created

2019-08-08

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

cloudtrail, glue, iam, lakeformation, s3

Control-plane actions (101)

By access level: 12 List, 6 Permissions management, 40 Read, 2 Tagging, 41 Write.

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 1 List, 1 Read.

Excluded and conditional actions

• lakeformation:PutDataLakeSettings (deny, statement 1): 1 matching actions

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: all-resources.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: lakeformation (36 of 37).

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

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• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneRedshiftGlueProvisioningPolicy
• AmazonDataZoneSageMakerEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneSageMakerProvisioningRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonChimeSDKMessagingServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneDomainExecutionRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneFullAccess
• AmazonDataZoneFullUserAccess
• AmazonDataZoneRedshiftManageAccessRolePolicy
• AmazonElasticMapReduceforAutoScalingRole
• AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "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": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v6, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "awslakeformationdataadmin" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin
• Report a data issue