Chapter 10: Building Applications with Amazon Athena

Up to this point in the book, we've primarily been focusing on getting a feel for Athena as a product and what you can do with it. In this chapter, we're going to look at it from a slightly different angle and see how we can build our own product that leverages Athena. There are many things to consider when doing this, with the simplest being, how are we even going to call Athena? Previously, we've either used the AWS Console, the AWS CLI, and also occasionally the Athena Python SDK, but what other options are there? In terms of connecting to Athena, what should we consider? What security features are there for connecting? And finally, how do we make sure we continue to leverage Athena in the most performant and cost-effective way? These are all questions that we are going to try to answer throughout this chapter. This chapter will also be a nice reminder of how subjective writing software really is. A lot of decisions...