@stemill ,

I understand the challenge. Unity Catalog is integrated into Databricks platform - and it's not possible to bypass it. Also, using Glue and Unity Catalog means that you will have 2 catalogs governing the same data - this is not a recommended pattern.

Perhaps another option you could try is to set up external Iceberg tables in Glue and map their S3 location to external tables in Unity Catalog?

Best regards,