MR.QUESTION
MR.QUESTION

Reputation: 359

Copy tables and views from Athena

Hi I need to copy tables and views from one Athena instance to another (I'm not using Glue). How to do this via AWS Console or via boto3/pyathena api without loosing any data? Cant find anything in documentation :(

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1049

Answers (1)

AswinRajaram
AswinRajaram

Reputation: 1622

Athena tables are built on top of files stored on S3. If you need the data, you will have to export the data.

Upvotes: 1

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