Analytics

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena runs serverless SQL over data in Amazon S3 and federated sources. In GenAI systems it exposes governed analytical context without provisioning a warehouse.

Key points

Uses the AWS Glue Data Catalog for table metadata
Supports prepared statements, workgroups, and per-query data limits
Athena federated query can reach supported external stores through connectors

When to use it

Query curated S3 data before prompt construction
Analyze model invocation and evaluation logs with SQL

Exam tips

Choose Athena for intermittent SQL on a data lake; use a database for low-latency transactional lookup
Partition and compress S3 data because scanned bytes drive both latency and cost

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