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Creating a Glue Crawler for Athena and S3

In this lab, you will be creating a Glue crawler to automatically upload your data into your Athena database. This is an important skill for managing large amounts of data changes.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 15m
Published
Clock icon Sep 28, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create an S3 Bucket

    Create a new S3 bucket with a globally unique name, and upload the dataset from this GitHub repo.

  2. Challenge

    Create a Glue Crawler

    Create a new classifier for CSV files to filter your data, and set up a data crawler to automatically pick up the data.

  3. Challenge

    Check Athena

    1. Navigate to the Athena database.
    2. Confirm the correct table has been created and contains the expected data.
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