In this article, I am going to introduce AWS Athena, a service offered by Amazon which allows users to query data from S3 using standard SQL syntax. AWS is considered to be a leader in the cloud computing world. Almost more than a hundred services are being offered by Amazon which offers competitive performance and cost-effective solutions to run workloads as compared to on-premise architectures. The services offered by Amazon range widely from compute, storage, databases, analytics, IoT, security, and a lot more. One of the popular areas of these services in the Analytics domain. This allows the customer to build architectures that answer key questions to their business decisions.

Figure 1 – Amazon Athena Query Editor

This article talks about AWS Athena, a service from the analytics domain of Amazon that focuses on the retrieval of static data stored in S3 buckets using standard SQL statements. It is a robust tool that can help customers quickly gain insights on their data stored on S3 as this is serverless and there is no infrastructure to manage.

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