AWS::Glue::Table

The AWS::Glue::Table resource specifies tabular data in the AWS Glue data catalog. For more information, see Defining Tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and Table Structure in the AWS Glue Developer Guide.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Type" : "AWS::Glue::Table",
  "Properties" : {
      "CatalogId" : String,
      "DatabaseName" : String,
      "TableInput" : TableInput
    }
}

YAML

Type: AWS::Glue::Table
Properties: 
  CatalogId: String
  DatabaseName: String
  TableInput: 
    TableInput

Properties

CatalogId

The ID of the Data Catalog in which to create the Table. If none is supplied, the AWS account ID is used by default.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DatabaseName

The name of the database where the table metadata resides. For Hive compatibility, this must be all lowercase.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

TableInput

A structure used to define a table.

Required: Yes

Type: TableInput

Update requires: No interruption

Return values

Ref

When you pass the logical ID of this resource to the intrinsic Ref function, Ref returns the table name.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.