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Get started managing partitions for Amazon S3 tables backed by the AWS Glue Data Catalog

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From the get-partitions , the element “Values” defines the partition value and “Location” defines the S3 path to be queried by the application: "Values": [ "2009-04-12-19-05" ] When querying the data from the partition dt="2009-04-12-19-05" , the application lists and reads only the files in the S3 path s3://us-east-1.elasticmapreduce/samples/hive-ads/tables/impressions/dt="2009-04-12-19-05".