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What is AWS Athena good for?

Last updated on September 25, 2022 @ 5:39 pm

AWS Athena is an Amazon Web Services public cloud platform that enables users to create and manage sophisticated data analytic applications quickly and easily. Amazon Athena offers a number of key benefits for data analysts including:

-Flexible data access: Athena provides a variety of data connectors to connect with a variety of data sources.

-Efficient data exploration and analysis: Athena’s data visualization tools make it easy to quickly find the data you’re looking for, and its data analysis tools make it easy to uncover insights that you can use to improve your business.

PRO TIP: AWS Athena is a good tool for running queries on data stored in Amazon S3, but it can be expensive if you are not careful with your query design. Make sure to use the EXPLAIN command to understand the cost of your queries before running them, and consider using partitioning and columnar formats to reduce the amount of data scanned by your query.

-Rapid application development: Athena makes it easy to build custom data analysis applications using well-known data analysis frameworks such as R and Python.

-Security and reliability: Athena is built on Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest and most reliable cloud platform.

Overall, AWS Athena is a powerful tool that can help data analysts quickly and easily create and manage sophisticated data analytic applications.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

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