Control Glue Crawlered table names

Hello,

Unfortunately, we do not have control over the Glue data catalog table names that are created by crawler at the moment. It is as you have pointed out, inferred from the folder name where the underlying data is present.

It is also not possible to update/rename the Glue data catalog table name of the existing table.

If you need this to be present for your use case at any cost, the procedure would be quite cumbersome. To achieve this, you have to recreate a new table by using the Athena DDL of the table that has already been created and then change the name of the new table to a desirable one of your choice(you can slo do this using CreateTable API call too)

Now create the crawler and point the crawler to this new table, this crawler will infer schema from the underlying S3 location and then update the table we have created.

If you already are aware of the initial schema of the underlying S3 data, formulate an Athena DDL with the table name of your choice for the same and then create a crawler to point to this table directly. If you are not aware of the schema, the above method is the only way forward.