Athena

• Athena is an interactive query service that enables you to analyse and query data located in S3 using standard SQL.

• Serverless, nothing to provision, pay per query / per TB scanned.

• No need to setup complex ETL processes.

• Works directly with data stored on S3.

Use cases

• Can be used to query log files in S3, e.g. ELB logs, S3 access logs, etc.

• Generate business reports on data stored in S3.

• Analyse AWS cost and Usage reports.

• Run queries on click-stream data.