Technical requirements
In the hands-on sections of this chapter, you will perform administrative tasks related to Amazon Athena (such as creating a new Athena workgroup) and run Athena queries. As mentioned at the start of this book, we strongly recommend that, for the exercises in this book, you use a sandbox account where you have full administrative permissions.
For this chapter, at a minimum, you will need permissions to manage Athena workgroups, permissions to run Athena queries, access to the AWS Glue Data Catalog for databases and tables to be queried, and read access to the relevant underlying S3 storage.
A user that has the AmazonAthenaFullAccess and AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess policies attached should have sufficient permissions for the exercises in this chapter. However, note that a user with these roles will have access to all S3 objects in the account, all Glue resources, all Athena permissions, as well as various other permissions, so this should only be granted to...