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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. To get started, simply point to your data in S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL.

User guide Learn how to use Athena to query data stored in Amazon S3.	API Reference Describes the Athena API operations in detail.
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Articles

Query Performance

Amazon Athena Performance Tuning

In this blog post, learn about the top 10 most effective ways to improve your query performance in Amazon Athena.

Data Visualization

Visualizing data with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

In this tutorial, learn how you can use Amazon Athena queries to build data visualizations and dashboards with Amazon QuickSight.

Federated Query

Query new data sources with Amazon Athena

In this blog post, learn about the variety of on-prem, AWS, and multicloud data sources that you can connect to analyze data.

Blog posts

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Integrate Amazon CloudWatch Logs with Amazon QuickSight using Amazon Athena

by Vignesh Srinivasan, Ashok Dasineni and Channa Basavaraja, 05/15/2025
Implementing granular cost analysis for multi-tenant CloudFront distributions

by Nick McCord and Alex Moening, 05/14/2025
Export and visualize carbon emissions data from your AWS accounts

by Katja Philipp and Steffen Grunwald, 05/13/2025
How Pendulum achieves 6x faster processing and 40% cost reduction with Amazon S3 Tables

by Abdurrahman Elbuni, Sam Farber and Alexis Tekin, 05/13/2025
Bringing more to the table: How Amazon S3 Tables rapidly delivered new capabilities in the first 5 months

by Valerie Laufer, 05/09/2025
150 Models and Counting: Your Guide to Generative AI Models for Healthcare and Life Sciences

by Malvika Viswanathan, Amrita Sarkar and Stephanie Dattoli, 05/07/2025
FOX continues to deliver record-breaking Super Bowl broadcasts with AWS

by Katie Dixon and Joy Ragin, 05/06/2025
Modernize 5G networks with second-generation AWS Outposts racks

by Dr. Young Jung, Flo Vinti, Sigit Priyanggoro and Zeb Khan, 05/01/2025
How BMW Group built a serverless terabyte-scale data transformation architecture with dbt and Amazon Athena

by Philipp Karg, Cizer Pereira and Selman Ay, 04/29/2025
Measuring Brain Injury in Critically Ill Children: How AI Helps Enable Early Detection

by Christopher Horvat, MD, MHA, Jason Hammett and Qing Liu, 04/24/2025

Videos

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