Athnea ¶
- It Interactive query service which allows analyzing the S3 database using the SQL.
- Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
- It will work with a number of data formats including "JSON", "Apache Parquet", "Apache ORC" amongst others, but "XML" is not a format that is supported.
- No need to set up the ETL processes
Athena is used to
- Generate Query log files in s3.
- Generate reports from s3.