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Athena OverviewΒΆ

  • Serverless query service to perform analytics against S3 objects
  • Uses standard SQL language to query the files
  • Supports CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro and Parquet
  • Pricing: $5.00 per TB of data scanned
  • Use compressed or columnar data for cost-savings (less scan)
  • Use cases: Business Intelligence / analytics / reporting, analyze & query FPC Flow logs, ELB logs, CloudTrail trails etc...

Exam Tip: Analyze data in S3 using serverless SQL, use athena.

Users -- load data --> S3 Bucket -- query & analyze --> Athena -- Reporting & Dashboards --> Amazon QuickSight