AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling you to centrally manage and scale fine-grained data access permissions and share data securely within and outside your organization. [AWS Lake Formation](https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/) is a service that allows you to define where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Your users can then access the centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog which describes available data sets and their appropriate usage. Your users can then usethese data sets with their choice of analytics and machine learning services, like Amazon EMR for Apache Spark, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Athena. To learn more about Lake Formation, visit the [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/). For AWS Lake Formation Region availability, please see the [AWS Region table](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/).