AWSLakeFormationDataAdmin

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Feb 12, 2026

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The same capabilities in a scoped form, resource policy writes, reads across all data, or full access to a whole service. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 3 permissions management actions across 1 service (lakeformation) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
lakeformation:attachrlspolicylakeformation:detachrlspolicylakeformation:revokepermissions
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full lakeformation access on every resource
Uses lakeformation:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
lakeformation:*
Use with caution: The grant grows every time the service does. For long-lived access, prefer a policy that lists the actions you actually need.

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63{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "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": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v6",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T18:02:56+00:00"
  }
}