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Revolutionizing Data Analytics: How AWS Athena is Changing the Game for Big Data Analysis!
AWS Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyse data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It allows you to query data that is stored in Amazon S3, without the need to set up or manage any infrastructure. AWS Athena is built on Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, and provides a simple and cost-effective way to run SQL queries on data stored in S3.
In this article, we will take a deep dive into AWS Athena, discussing its features, benefits, use cases, and how to use it.
Features of AWS Athena
AWS Athena comes with a host of features that make it a popular choice for analyzing data in S3. Here are some of its key features:
- Serverless: With AWS Athena, you don’t need to provision or manage any infrastructure. It’s completely serverless, which means you can focus on querying your data rather than managing servers.
- Interactive: AWS Athena provides an interactive SQL-based interface that makes it easy to analyse data in S3. You can run queries on large datasets and get results within seconds.
- Scalable: AWS Athena is built on top of Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine that can scale to handle…