Creating tables

Amazon Lake Formation metadata tables contain information about data in the data lake, including schema information, partition information, and data location. These tables are stored in the Amazon Glue Data Catalog. You use them to access underlying data in the data lake and manage that data with Lake Formation permissions. Tables are stored within databases in the Data Catalog.

There are several ways to create Data Catalog tables:

Run a crawler in Amazon Glue. See Defining crawlers in the Amazon Glue Developer Guide.
Create and run a workflow. See Importing data using workflows in Lake Formation.
Create a table manually using the Lake Formation console, Amazon Glue API, or Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI).
Create a table using Amazon Athena.
Create a resource link to a table in an external account. See Creating resource links.

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Creating a database

Creating Iceberg tables