Amazon Athena

Let's learn about Amazon Athena

Reference: aws docs

What is Amazon Athena?

• Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) using standard SQL

• With a few actions in the AWS Management Console:

  • Point Athena to data stored in Amazon S3

  • Run ad-hoc queries using standard SQL

  • Get results in seconds

• Since Athena is serverless:

  • There's no infrastructure to set up or manage

  • You only pay for the queries you run

• Results are fast even for complex queries on large datasets