Analytics using Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless service that allows anyone to interactively query data in an S3 data lake using American National Standards Institute (ANSI) SQL. Athena is integrated with the Glue Data Catalog, which means that as soon as the metadata about the data is captured in the catalog, Athena is able to view and query those tables without any additional setup.

With no infrastructure to manage, along with direct out-of-the-box integration with Glue Data Catalog, this makes Athena a very popular service for multiple personas in the organization for interactive and ad hoc analytics. And being a serverless service, the pricing model of the service, 5 dollars per terabyte of data scanned, is also very appealing to organizations. With the correct optimization techniques, you can effectively roll out Athena as the service of choice throughout your organization for all types of interactive analytics use cases, for querying the data stored in the S3 data...