I\'m working in an environment where I have an S3 service being used as a data lake, but not AWS Athena. I\'m trying to setup Presto to be able to query the data in S3 and I kno
needing to set up hive just for the metastore seems cumbersome indeed.
Have you considered using the AWS glue data catalog instead?
This way you won’t have to manage anything.
You can find detailed informations here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-presto-glue.html