# Accessing Data

Once data is registered through the AWS Lake Formation connection, you will access your data in one of these AWS analytic engines as you normally would:

* Amazon Athena
* Amazon EMR Spark
* Amazon Redshift Spectrum

If you are subscribed to the data source, Immuta either directly grants you access to the resource through Lake Formation or generates and assigns a Lake Formation tag to that resource to grant you access. See the [Protecting data page](/saas/configuration/integrations/aws-lake-formation/reference-guides/protecting-data.md#protecting-data) for details about how policies are enforced.

When you submit a query, the analytic engine requests metadata from Glue Data Catalog, which then queries Lake Formation to determine what data you are allowed to see. Then, the analytic engine requests temporary access from Lake Formation, retrieves the data from S3, and filters the data to return policy-enforced data to you.

The diagram below illustrates how the analytic engine interacts with Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation to access data.

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