Software Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jan 20, 2023
One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform.
Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 using SQL. It efficiently supports data lake architectures and offers features for diverse data formats without needing extensive infrastructure. Athena's integration with AWS Glue enhances schema management. Amazon Athena leverages a serverless architecture to provide scalable, cost-effective query capabilities for large datasets stored in Amazon S3. With native support for Parquet and Avro, it...
Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products.
Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay.
One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform.
The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth.
It's easy to set up the product.