Querying federated catalogs - Amazon Lake Formation
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Querying federated catalogs

After you grant permissions to other principals, they can sign in and start querying the tables in the federated catalogs using Athena.

To create and delete tables in the federated database, the principal must have Lake Formation Create table, Drop permissions.

For more information on granting Data Catalog permissions, see Granting permissions on Data Catalog resources.

For more information on querying the Data Catalog from Amazon Athena, see Querying Amazon Glue Data Catalog from Amazon Athena in Amazon Athena User Guide.