How to connect a Sagemaker Notebook to Glue Catalog

So there is the catalog API which allows you to describe databases, tables, etc. Documentation regarding the calls and data structures can be found here:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-api-catalog-tables.html

Boto3 for get_table

• https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/glue.html#Glue.Client.get_table

If they have a restrictive security posture (as suggested by the avoidance of Dev Endpoints) you may also suggest a Glue VPC-E: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpce-interface.html

I would ask what are they accessing the catalog for, as the Dev Endpoint isn't entirely about the Glue Catalog, but about the compute resources andSparkMagic.

Also, think about steering them towards AWS Data Wrangler for interacting with Glue Catalog if they are using Pandas. Helpful snippets can be found here:

• https://github.com/awslabs/aws-data-wrangler/blob/master/tutorials/005%20-%20Glue%20Catalog.ipynb