Athena¶

Overview¶

• Serverless services to perform analytics against S3 files.
• Can use SQL to query files.
• Has a JDBC/ODBC driver.
• Charged per query and amount of data scanned.
• Supports VSC, JSON, ORC, Avro and Parquet.
• Uses Presto in the back-end.

Use Cases¶

• Business Intelligence/Analytics reporting.
• Analyze & Query VPC flow logs.
• ELB logs.
• CloudTrail logs.