Documentation Team

Amazon Athena User Guide Documentation Team

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With a few actions in the AWS Management Console, you can point Athena at your data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get results in seconds.


Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. Athena scales automatically--executing queries in parallel--so results are fast, even with large datasets and complex queries.