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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. To get started, simply point to your data in S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL.

User guide Learn how to use Athena to query data stored in Amazon S3.	API Reference Describes the Athena API operations in detail.
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Articles

Query Performance

Amazon Athena Performance Tuning

In this blog post, learn about the top 10 most effective ways to improve your query performance in Amazon Athena.

Data Visualization

Visualizing data with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

In this tutorial, learn how you can use Amazon Athena queries to build data visualizations and dashboards with Amazon QuickSight.

Federated Query

Query new data sources with Amazon Athena

In this blog post, learn about the variety of on-prem, AWS, and multicloud data sources that you can connect to analyze data.

Blog posts

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Optimize your Amazon QuickSight implementation: a guide to usage analytics and cost management

by Jesse Gebhardt, Neeraj Kumar, Salim Khan, Sindhu Chandra and Srikanth Baheti, 03/21/2025
Improve cost visibility of an Amazon RDS multi-tenant instance with Performance Insights and Amazon Athena

by Andrea Filippo La Scola and Davide Coccia, 03/19/2025
Streamlining access to tabular datasets stored in Amazon S3 Tables with DuckDB

by Anupriti Warade and Yuri Zarubin, 03/18/2025
Seamless streaming to Amazon S3 Tables with StreamNative Ursa Engine

by Kundan Vyas, Anupriti Warade and Wahab Syed, 03/18/2025
Connect Snowflake to S3 Tables using the SageMaker Lakehouse Iceberg REST endpoint

by Aritra Gupta, Jeemin Sim, Deepmala Agarwal, Frank Dallezotte and Srividya Parthasarathy, 03/14/2025
Enhancing Adobe Marketo Engage Data Analysis with AWS Glue Integration

by Kenny Rajan, Kamen Sharlandjiev, Basheer Sheriff and Rafal Pawlaszek, 03/11/2025
Build a data lake for streaming data with Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon Data Firehose

by Swapna Bandla, Anupriti Warade, Phaneendra Vuliyaragoli, Prashant Singh and Rakesh Ghodasara, 03/04/2025
AWS Savings Plans: How to Implement an Effective Chargeback Strategy

by Alonso de Cosio, 02/28/2025
Monitor and optimize your Amazon Bedrock usage with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

by Ozan Cihangir, 02/24/2025
How Rocket Companies modernized their data science solution on AWS

by Dian Xu, Joel Hawkins, Alak Eswaradass and Sajjan AVS, 02/21/2025

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