CreateDataCatalogRequest

A description of the data catalog to be created.

The name of the data catalog to create. The catalog name must be unique for the Amazon Web Services account and can use a maximum of 127 alphanumeric, underscore, at sign, or hyphen characters. The remainder of the length constraint of 256 is reserved for use by Athena.

Specifies the Lambda function or functions to use for creating the data catalog. This is a mapping whose values depend on the catalog type.

A list of comma separated tags to add to the data catalog that is created. All the resources that are created by the CreateDataCatalog API operation with FEDERATED type will have the tag federated_athena_datacatalog="true". This includes the CFN Stack, Glue Connection, Athena DataCatalog, and all the resources created as part of the CFN Stack (Lambda Function, IAM policies/roles).

The type of data catalog to create: LAMBDA for a federated catalog, GLUE for an Glue Data Catalog, and HIVE for an external Apache Hive metastore. FEDERATED is a federated catalog for which Athena creates the connection and the Lambda function for you based on the parameters that you pass.