What is AWS (Amazon Web Services) Athena?

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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze data in Amazon S3 applying standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to handle, and you pay just for the queries that you run.

Athena is simple to use. You simply had to point to your data in Amazon S3, establish the schema, and begin querying utilizing standard SQL. Most outcomes are conveyed in practically no time. With Athena, there's no requirement for complex ETL jobs to set up your data for analysis. This makes it easier for anybody with SQL skills to rapidly analyze large-scale datasets.

Athena is out-of-the-box integrated with AWS Glue Data Catalog, permitting you to generate a unified metadata storehouse across different services, crawl data sources to explore schemas, and populate your Catalog with a new and remodeled table and partition definitions, and sustain schema versioning.

Benefits of using Amazon Athena:

  • Start querying instantly.
  • Pay per query.
  • Open, powerful, standard.
  • Fast, Really fast.

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