Hands-on – creating an Amazon Athena workgroup and configuring Athena settings
In this section, we're going to create and configure a new Athena Workgroup and learn more about how Workgroups can help separate groups of users:
- Log into AWS Management Console and access the Athena service using this link: https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena.
- Expand the left-hand menu, and click on Workgroups to access the workgroup management page.
- On the Workgroup management page, click on Create workgroup and enter the following values for our new Workgroup. For the items not listed here, leave the defaults as-is:
- Workgroup name: Provide a descriptive name for the Workgroup, such as datalake-user-sandbox.
- Description: Optionally, provide a description for this Workgroup, such as Sandbox Workgroup for new datalake-users.
- Query result location: In the hands-on exercises in Chapter 4, Data Cataloging, Security, and Governance...