Creating a catalog - Amazon Lake Formation
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Creating a catalog

Catalogs represent the highest or top-most level in the three-level metadata hierarchy of the Amazon Glue Data Catalog. You can use multiple methods to bring data into the Data Catalog and create multi-level catalogs.

For more information on creating catalogs from external data sources, see Bringing your data into the Amazon Glue Data Catalog.

To create a catalog using the Lake Formation console, you must be signed in as a data lake administrator or a catalog creator. A catalog creator is a principal who has been granted the Lake Formation CREATE_CATALOG permission. You can see a list of catalog creators on the Administrative roles and tasks page of the Lake Formation console. To view this list, you must have the lakeformation:ListPermissions IAM permission and be signed in as a data lake administrator or as a catalog creator with the grant option on the CREATE_CATALOG permission.