AWS Athena

This is part of a blog series giving a high level overview of the different services examined on the AWS Solution Architect Associate exam, to view the whole series click here.

Athena Summary

• Athena is an interactive query service that analyses data using standard SQL.

• Can work with both structured and unstructured data and can work directly with data stored in S3.

• Serverless — nothing to provision, pay per query

• No need for complex ETL

• Out of the box integration with AWS Glue

• Can be used for things like querying log files or generating reports based on data stored in S3.

If you are interested in trying out Athena, try this tutorial I created earlier in the year!