# Entities and data actions: Configure your app's data model
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**Entities** are data tables in App Studio. Entities interact directly with tables in data sources. Entities include fields to describe the data in them, queries to locate and return data, and mapping to connect the entity's fields to a data source's columns.

**Topics**
+ [Best practices when designing data models](data-model-best-practices.md)
+ [Creating an entity in an App Studio app](data-entities-create.md)
+ [Configuring or editing an entity in an App Studio app](data-entities-edit.md)
+ [Deleting an entity](data-entities-delete.md)
+ [Managed data entities in AWS App Studio](managed-data-entities.md)