Analyzing Data With Amazon Athena

In this lesson, you will be introduced to Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to directly query data stored in S3 using standard SQL. Athena can also be used to perform analytics operations for big data workloads that use Apache Spark.

Learning Objectives

• Introduce Amazon Athena and see how it can be used to query large data sets stored in S3
• Explain Athena storage and querying concepts, including the process of setting up databases, tables, and partitions
• See how Athena can be used to run Apache Spark applications

Intended Audience

• Anyone looking to learn more about Amazon Athena and/or candidates for AWS certification exams, including the new AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)

Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of S3 and data analytics