Get Glue Data Catalog Name/ID

Question

How do I get the name or ID of the/my data catalog in Glue?

Answer

Hello,

AWS Glue Catalog ID is the AWS account ID. This is mentioned on our AWS Docs here [1] as well -

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Each AWS account has a single Data Catalog in an AWS Region with the 12-digit account ID as the catalog ID.
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Additionally, in regards to querying the Glue Data Catalog metadata, you can leverage SQL queries in Athena as mentioned here on our AWS Docs [2].

```
To obtain AWS Glue Catalog metadata, you query the information_schema database on the Athena backend.
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References:

[1]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/glue-specifying-resource-arns.html#data-catalog-resource-arns

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/querying-glue-catalog.html

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