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Organizations that want to start running powerful database queries

About Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze 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 is easy to use. Simply point to your data in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL. Most results are delivered within seconds. With Athena, there’s no need for complex ETL jobs to prepare your data for analysis. This makes it easy for anyone with SQL skills to quickly analyze large-scale datasets. Athena is out-of-the-box integrated with AWS Glue Data Catalog, allowing you to create a unified metadata repository across various services, crawl data sources to discover schemas and populate your Catalog with new and modified table and partition definitions, and maintain schema versioning.

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  • Samantha H.
    Digital Marketing Specialist
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
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    "Quick Results"

    Posted 2022-03-23

    Pros: I appreciate this query engine and the quick and insightful results that it provides for each search.

    Cons: Sometimes the keywords aren't quite understood in my search or question.

    Overall: Overall, this large query engine has been able to develop and provide results effectively for years and seems to be continuously improving.

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  • An Amazon Athena User
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Query service for cloud data"

    Posted 2020-08-24

    Pros: Simple to use.
    Fully automated and managed.
    Parquet file conversion.
    Table creation.
    Pay only for what you query.

    Cons: In my basic usage i didn't find any issues with it.

    Overall: If you want to query logs or any other data stored in Amazon S3, Athena is the way to go. It is a managed query service with additional features built to query stored data.

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