top of page

Athena

  • Writer: Rohan Roy
    Rohan Roy
  • May 11, 2021
  • 1 min read

Athena is an interactive query service which is used to analyze and query data located in S3 using standard SQL.


  • Athena is serverless, nothing to provision, pay per query / per TB scanned.

  • No need to set up complex ETL processes.

  • Works directly with data stored in S3.

  • Can be used to query log files stored in S3, generate business reports on data stored in s3, to analyze AWS cost and usage report, to run queries on click-stream data stored in S3.

Recent Posts

See All
Macie

AWS Macie is a security service which uses Machine Learning and NLP to discover, classify and protect sensitive data stored in S3. Uses...

 
 
 
Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway connects an on-premise software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an...

 
 
 
Snowball

Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS....

 
 
 

Comments

Rated 0 out of 5 stars.
No ratings yet

Add a rating

©2025 Rohan Roy

bottom of page