ATHENA

Fully serverless database with SQL capabilities

Used to query data in s3

Pay per query

Output results back to S3

Secured through IAM

USE CASE: One time ANSI SQL queries, Serverless queries on S3, Log analytics

 

·      Operations: no operations needed, serverless

·      Security: IAM + S3 Security

·      Reliability: Managed Service, uses Presto engine, highly available

·      Performance: queries scale based on data size

·      Cost Optimization: pay per query / per TB of data scanned, serverless