Amazon Athena adds support for managing data catalogs using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Athena customers can now register and manage their data catalogs in Athena using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::DataCatalog resource.

CloudFormation templates help customers to provision and configure their AWS resources. Athena customers can register their relational as well as non-relational data sources in Athena and use federated queries to query data from the data source. Previously, to register a data source, customers had to either use the Athena console or Athena APIs. With this release, customers can create, update and delete their data sources using the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Athena::DataCatalog resource.

Please see our documentation for detailed information and usage examples. For information about Athena’s federated query feature, please visit our documentation.