Connecting and securing
Connectivity and authentication features are often overlooked. Like all AWS services, Athena offers a set of APIs for interacting with the service from your applications or from the command line when using the AWS CLI. These APIs allow you to submit a new query, check the status of an already running query, retrieve pages of results, or kill a query. These same APIs are used from within Athena's JDBC and ODBC drivers. When connecting to Athena, you can use the standard endpoints if you have an internet gateway in your VPC or opt to call Athena from a VPC endpoint and avoid the need to have internet connectivity from your application VPC. This gives you added control over your security posture by pushing the responsibility of securely connecting to your data sources onto Athena.
In addition to VPC endpoints, Athena also offers SAML federation for managing identities outside of AWS. This allows your Active Directory users to seamlessly authenticate to...
