Athena Overview

• Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyse data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

• Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

• Athena helps you analyse unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data stored in Amazon S3.

  • Examples include CSV, JSON, or columnar data formats such as Apache Parquet and Apache ORC.