Summary

In most of the other chapters in this book, we covered more than one service. In this chapter, we focused exclusively on one service – Amazon Athena. As we discovered, Amazon Athena is a simple yet powerful service that can "convert" any file into a database by allowing us to query and update the contents of that file by using the ubiquitous SQL syntax.

We then learned how we can add some governance to the process by learning about Amazon Athena workgroups and how they can help you to control access to files by adding a level of security to the process.

Finally, as we have been learning throughout the book, there is not a single AWS service (or any other tool or product, for that matter) that is a silver bullet to solve all problems. Amazon Athena is no different, so we learned in the last sections of this chapter about some scenarios where Amazon Athena is an appropriate solution and we learned about other use cases where other AWS services such as...