Amazon Athena
Learn about the core functionalities of Amazon Athena and its integration with AWS services.
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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows us to analyze data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) using standard SQL queries. It enables us to query large-scale datasets quickly and easily without having to set up or manage any infrastructure.
In this lesson, we will go through the functionalities of Amazon Athena and when to use it.
Core functionalities
The core functionalities offered by Amazon Athena are given as follows:
Serverless architecture: Unlike traditional data warehouses that require server setup and management, Athena operates as a serverless service. We simply submit the queries, and Athena handles the underlying ...