API Overview

**Table 1** API Overview
Operation	API Type	Description
Console	Instance Management	Instance management APIs, which allow you to create, delete, edit, and query LakeFormation instances. With these APIs, you can create instances and obtain information about the created instances.
	Job Management	Task management APIs, which allow you to create tasks and list task information. With these APIs, you can create and manage tasks.
	Service Authorization Management	Agreement authorization management APIs, which allow you to authorize agreements, and query system and authorized agreements. Before using LakeFormation, you need to understand and accept related agreements and authorization.
	OBS Management	OBS bucket management APIs, which allow you to query OBS buckets and objects. With these APIs, you can obtain the OBS information needed for configuring the storage path of metadata.
	Access Management	Service access management APIs, which allow you to obtain access information and apply for access. Once the service is activated and the instances are set up, LakeFormation can offer metadata management features to other services. However, these services need to connect to LakeFormation through this API before they can access the metadata management features that LakeFormation provides.
	Specification Management	Specification management APIs, including APIs for querying the specification list.
	Quota Management Service	Quota management APIs, including APIs for querying user quota information.
	Tag Management Service	Tag management APIs, including APIs for querying resource tag sets and updating tags in batches.
	Agency Management	Agency management APIs, including creating, querying, and deleting agencies.
LakeCat	Function Management	Function management APIs, which allow you to create and delete functions. With these APIs, you can create functions and obtain information about the created functions.
	Catalog Management	Catalog management APIs. With these APIs, you can create and delete catalogs.
	Database Management	Database management APIs. With these APIs, you can create and delete databases.
	Table Management	Table management APIs. With these APIs, you can create and delete tables.
	Data Table Statistics	Table statistics APIs. With these APIs, you can obtain the column statistics of a table and delete the statistics of a specified column.
	Zone-based Management	Partition management APIs. With these APIs, you can create and delete partitions.
	Partition Statistics	Partition statistics APIs. With these APIs, you can obtain and delete partition column statistics.
	Authorization Management	Authorization management APIs. With these APIs, you can query authorization policies and perform batch authorization.
	User Group Management	User group management APIs. With these APIs, you can obtain information such as user groups of a tenant.
	Metadata Statistics	Metadata statistics collection APIs, including the metadata quantity statistics APIs.
	Role Management	Role management APIs, including the APIs for creating, obtaining, modifying, and deleting roles.
	Credential Management	Credential management APIs, including the APIs for obtaining temporary keys and security tokens.
	Configuration Management	Configuration management APIs, including the APIs for obtaining tenant plane configurations visible to all users.
	User	User management APIs, including obtaining the user list, granting multiple roles to a user, removing one or more roles from a user, updating roles in a user, and querying the role list of a user.