Athena
Overview
- Serverless Interactive Querying Service -NO INFRASTRUCTURE
- Ad-hoc queries on data - pay only data consumed
- Schema-on-read - table-like translation
- Original data never changed - remains on S3
- Schema translates data => relational-like when read
- Ouput can be sent to other AWS services
- SQL like queries
- Queries where loading/transformation is not desired
- Cost effective
- Querying AWS logs - VPC Flow Logs,CloudTrail, ELB logs, cost reports
- AWS Glue Data Catalog and Web Server Logs
- w/ Athena Federated Query .. other data sources (non s3 sources)
- using custom and pre-built connectors
