Step 1: Set crawler properties - AWS Glue
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Step 1: Set crawler properties

To configure a crawler

  2. Choose Create crawler, and follow the instructions in the Add crawler wizard. The wizard will guide you the steps required to create a crawler. If you want to add custom calssifiers to define the schema, see Defining and managing classifiers.

  3. Enter a name for your crawler and description (optional). Optionally, you can tag your crawler with a Tag key and optional Tag value. Once created, tag keys are read-only. Use tags on some resources to help you organize and identify them. For more information, see AWS tags in AWS Glue.

    Name

    Name may contain letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), hyphens (-), or underscores (_), and can be up to 255 characters long.

    Description

    Descriptions can be up to 2048 characters long.

    Tags

    Use tags to organize and identify your resources. For more information, see the following: