Amazon Athena

• Serverless query service to analyze data stored in Amazon S3

• Uses standard SQL language to query the files

• Supports CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, and parquet (builtonPresto)

• Pricing: $5.00 per TB of data scanned

• Use compressed or columnar data for cost-savings (less scan)

• Use cases: Business intelligence/analytics/reporting, analysis & query VPC Flow Logs, ELB Logs, CloudTrail trails, etc...

• Exam Tip: analyze data in S3 using serverless SQL, using Athena