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Query Encrypted Amazon S3 Data with Amazon Athena

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 20 minutes

Students: 3,288

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Description

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a web service from AWS that enables you to store data at scale in the cloud. Amazon S3 supports encrypting data at rest. Amazon Athena is a query service that integrates with Amazon S3 allowing you to easily access and analyze your data.

By combining Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena you can achieve end-to-end security:

Data is stored encrypted in Amazon S3 (at rest)
All communications within AWS are encrypted (in transit)
Amazon Athena query results are encrypted (at rest)

In this hands-on lab, you will upload data files to Amazon S3. Configure one of the files to be stored encrypted. And you will use Amazon Athena to query both files.

Note: Due to updates by AWS, starting January 5, 2023, all new object uploads to Amazon S3 are automatically encrypted at no additional cost and with no impact on performance. However, it would still be beneficial for students to understand the concepts behind S3 encryption.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Encrypt data on S3
Define a schema in order to create a database and table in Amazon Athena
Perform basic queries in Athena
Encrypt the query results

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

Amazon S3
Amazon Athena

The following courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

Lab Environment

After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:

Updates

February 14th, 2025 - Updated instructions to reflect default Amazon S3 bucket encryption settings

January 20th, 2025 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

July 20th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

May 12th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

April 14th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

January 21st, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

December 21, 2021 - Updated grammar.

October 5, 2021 - Added a note about changes to the interface and how to access the previous interface.

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab