Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, requiring no infrastructure management, and you pay only for the queries you run. Simply point to your data in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying with SQL. Most results are delivered within seconds.
No setup, no complex ETL required
With Athena, you can query data immediately without deploying servers or managing a complex data infrastructure. Just define the schema and use the built-in query editor in AWS Console to analyze your data instantly.
Pricing based on data scanned
With Amazon Athena, you only pay for the data scanned per query. The current pricing is $5 per terabyte scanned. You can optimize costs by 30% to 90% through compression, partitioning, and converting data to columnar formats like Parquet or ORC.
Supports standard SQL and multiple data formats
Amazon Athena uses Presto with ANSI SQL, supporting various standard data formats such as CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, Parquet. Athena is ideal for quick queries but also supports complex analysis, including large joins, window functions, and array processing.
Quick query execution even on large datasets
Athena automatically optimizes and executes queries in parallel, ensuring fast results even when analyzing large-scale data. Since it uses Amazon S3 as its backend storage, you benefit from high availability and 11 nines (99.999999999%) durability.