Amazon Athena

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Amazon Athena is ranked #17 of 31 in OLAP software on Inferse. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan. Paid plans start at $0.30/mo.

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Free plan: Noaws.amazon.com
Deployment: cloudaws.amazon.com
Query language: sqlaws.amazon.com
Row-level security: Yesaws.amazon.com
Data source coverage: object storage, relational databases, non-relational databases, cloud data stores, on-premises data stores, custom data sourcesaws.amazon.com

Facts

Purpose: Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Scale: Athena automatically scales and runs queries in parallel, including on large datasets and complex queries.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
SQL engine: Athena for SQL is based on Trino and Presto and supports ANSI SQL features including large joins, window functions, and arrays.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Data formats: Supported formats include CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, and Parquet.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
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.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
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.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Machine learning: Athena SQL queries can invoke machine-learning models deployed on Amazon SageMaker for inference.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
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.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
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.docs.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Workgroups: Workgroups can separate users, teams, applications, or workloads, set per-query or group data processing limits, and track costs.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
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.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Intended use: AWS describes Athena as suited to interactive SQL queries and data exploration across S3, other clouds, and on-premises sources.aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026
Maker: Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and lists its principal corporate offices in Seattle, Washington.ir.aboutamazon.com · 3 Oct 2026