AWS Athena

AWS Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that lets you query and transform data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

Key Features:

• Serverless SQL - Run queries instantly with no infrastructure to set up, manage, or scale.
• S3-Native - Analyze data stored in CSV, Parquet, JSON, and ORC formats directly in your data lake.
• Apache Spark Support - Run Spark workloads alongside SQL queries for advanced data processing.
• Pay Per Query - Only pay for the data scanned by each query, with no upfront commitments.
• Cross-Service Integration - Connect to AWS Glue Data Catalog, SageMaker, and Lake Formation.
• Parallel Execution - Automatically scale and parallelize queries for fast results on large datasets.

Whether you're analyzing scraped data files, processing logs, or running ad-hoc analytics, Athena provides instant SQL access to your data lake.