What's the difference between connecting to Athena and Glue?

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Atlan recommends setting up AWS Glue or Amazon Athena based on your intended outcome:

• To only crawl metadata, you can set up an AWS Glue connection.
• To also preview and query the data, you can set up an Amazon Athena connection.

Note that Amazon Athena also sources asset metadata directly from AWS Glue.