After you create connections to federated data sources, you can register them as federated data catalogs for simplified data discovery and manage data access with fine-grained permissions using Lake Formation. For more information, see Register your connection as a Glue Data Catalog.
Considerations and
limitations
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DDL operations are not supported on federated catalogs.
You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-grained access control:
When you create a resource link for Glue connection federation, the name of resource link must be same as the database name of the producer.
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Currently, only lowercase table and column names are recognized even if the data source is case insensitive.
