AWS service detail

Amazon Athena

Analytics

Query data in Amazon S3 using SQL

AnalyticsProduction guidance

Production use

Use after deployment for product analytics, logs, events, BI, search analytics, and data lake pipelines.

Before production

  • Define data ownership
  • encrypt storage
  • use least-privilege access
  • set lifecycle policies
  • validate data quality
  • add cost controls for scans and retention.