Is it Possible Delete Table (or Rows from Table) Using Amazon Athena?

Question

I am using Athena together with SQL Alchemy ORM. I just created a table (for testing some machine learning model integration) and pushed some data to it using SQL Alchemy ORM. But unfortunately, I can neither delete the table, nor the rows inside it. I tried both of these commands on the Athena query editor. 
```
DELETE FROM tensorflow_clustering;
DROP TABLE tensorflow_clustering;
```
Both failing. This is the error message for dropping table, for example.

> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Insufficient Lake Formation permission(s): Required Drop on tensorflow_clustering (Service: AmazonDataCatalog; Status Code: 400; Error Code: AccessDeniedException; Request ID: 8d2b9a82-6e50-4fdd-9b7e-09804f6445bc; Proxy: null))

Is it possible to drop tables and rows in athena at all?

Answer

Hi,

Could you check if your user has Lake Formation permissions to delete rows or drop tables? I recommend you take a look at the following links, they may be helpful to you.
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/granting-database-permissions.html
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/granting-table-permissions.html

Is it Possible Delete Table (or Rows from Table) Using Amazon Athena?

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