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Creating a Workgroup in Athena
In this lab, we will be creating a an Athena workgroup to allow you to control who has access to your datasets and searches. This is actively important to allow and disallow people to see your searches.

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Challenge
Create an IAM Policy
1.) Get to the IAM dashboard. 2.) Create a new IAM policy for Athena allowing, reading, writing and tagging. 3.) Add it to the created workgroup. 4.) Name the policy. 5.) Tag the policy.
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Challenge
Create a Workgroup
1.) Navigate to the Athena dashboard. 2.) Create a new Athena workgroup.
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Challenge
Validate Functionality
If you have everything connected correctly:
1.) In the Athena console, use the Workgroup option on the upper right to choose a workgroup. 2.) If the Workgroup-Name Settings dialog box appears, choose Acknowledge.
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