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Amazon Athena

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Integrations
Athena integrates with AWS Glue and offers built-in connectors to 30 data stores, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and SAP Hana.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Security
Access to data can be controlled with IAM policies, access control lists, and S3 bucket policies, and Athena supports querying encrypted S3 data and writing encrypted results.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Compliance
AWS documentation says third-party auditors assess security and compliance under AWS programs including SOC, PCI, and FedRAMP; customer compliance responsibility depends on their data and obligations.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Maker
Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and lists its principal corporate offices in Seattle, Washington.Read 3 Oct 2026 · ir.aboutamazon.com
Additional charges
S3 storage, requests, and data transfer are billed at standard S3 rates, and use of the AWS Glue Data Catalog incurs its standard rates.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Data formats
Supported formats include CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, and Parquet.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Intended use
AWS describes Athena as suited to interactive SQL queries and data exploration across S3, other clouds, and on-premises sources.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Machine learning
Athena SQL queries can invoke machine-learning models deployed on Amazon SageMaker for inference.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Query access
Athena queries can be run from its console, API, CLI, AWS SDK, and supported BI and SQL development applications using JDBC or ODBC drivers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Scale
Athena automatically scales and runs queries in parallel, including on large datasets and complex queries.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
SQL engine
Athena for SQL is based on Trino and Presto and supports ANSI SQL features including large joins, window functions, and arrays.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Workgroups
Workgroups can separate users, teams, applications, or workloads, set per-query or group data processing limits, and track costs.Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

SQL queries with Capacity Reservations $0.30 a month $0.30 per DPU-hour; usage-based Capacity-based pricing; S3 and other service charges may apply separately Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Apache Spark $0.35 a month $0.35 per DPU-hour; usage-based S3 charges for storing and reading data and results apply separately Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
SQL queries $5 a month $5 per TB of data scanned; usage-based S3, Glue Data Catalog, and Lambda charges may apply separately Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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