use AWS pandas sdk or awswrangler
Installation: pip install awswrangler
Usage:
import awswrangler as wr
assert "some_db" in wr.catalog.databases().values
more info here: https://aws-sdk-pandas.readthedocs.io/en/3.5.0/tutorials/006%20-%20Amazon%20Athena.html#Checking/Creating-Glue-Catalog-Databases