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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.

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API Reference
Describes the Athena API operations in detail.

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Articles

Amazon Athena Performance Tuning

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

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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.

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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.

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Optimize Amazon Athena Queries with New Query Analysis Tools

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Analyze Results of Federated Query in Amazon Athena in Amazon QuickSight (21:00)

Introducing User Defined Functions (UDFs) in Amazon Athena (14:02)

Speed up Amazon Athena Queries using Partition Projection (12:40)

Insert / Update / Delete on S3 With Amazon Athena and Apache Iceberg (10:17)

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Amazon Athena resources

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Amazon Athena Performance Tuning

Visualizing data with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

Query new data sources with Amazon Athena

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