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Amazon Athena
Plans and prices
SQL queries with Capacity Reservations
$0.30usage-based
Capacity-based pricing; S3 and other service charges may apply separately
Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Apache Spark
$0.35usage-based
S3 charges for storing and reading data and results apply separately
Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
SQL queries
$5usage-based
S3, Glue Data Catalog, and Lambda charges may apply separately
Read 3 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On the record
- Additional charges
- S3 storage, requests, and data transfer are billed at standard S3 rates, and use of the AWS Glue Data Catalog incurs its standard rates.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- AWS documentation says third-party auditors assess security and compliance under AWS programs including SOC, PCI, and FedRAMP; customer compliance responsibility depends on their data and obligations.docs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Data formats
- Supported formats include CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, and Parquet.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Athena integrates with AWS Glue and offers built-in connectors to 30 data stores, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and SAP Hana.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- AWS describes Athena as suited to interactive SQL queries and data exploration across S3, other clouds, and on-premises sources.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Machine learning
- Athena SQL queries can invoke machine-learning models deployed on Amazon SageMaker for inference.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and lists its principal corporate offices in Seattle, Washington.ir.aboutamazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Query access
- Athena queries can be run from its console, API, CLI, AWS SDK, and supported BI and SQL development applications using JDBC or ODBC drivers.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Scale
- Athena automatically scales and runs queries in parallel, including on large datasets and complex queries.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Security
- Access to data can be controlled with IAM policies, access control lists, and S3 bucket policies, and Athena supports querying encrypted S3 data and writing encrypted results.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- SQL engine
- Athena for SQL is based on Trino and Presto and supports ANSI SQL features including large joins, window functions, and arrays.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Workgroups
- Workgroups can separate users, teams, applications, or workloads, set per-query or group data processing limits, and track costs.aws.amazon.com · read 3 Oct 2026
