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

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/product/connections/faq/athena-vs-glue

> Learn about what's the difference between connecting to athena and glue?.

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](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/aws-glue/set-up-aws-glue/llms.txt).
- To also preview and query the data, you can [set up an Amazon Athena connection](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/amazon-athena/set-up-amazon-athena/llms.txt).

Note that Amazon Athena also sources [asset metadata](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/amazon-athena/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-amazon-athena/llms.txt) directly from [AWS Glue](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/aws-glue/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-aws-glue/llms.txt).

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