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Amazon Athena

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Hadoop Distributions
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Athena

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Athena?

Amazon Athena is a software that allows users to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service using standard SQL queries. It is serverless, removing the need for infrastructure management, and is designed to handle structured, unstructured, and semi-structured datasets. The software provides features such as querying, data catalog integration, and compatibility with various file formats including JSON, CSV, and Parquet. Amazon Athena can be used to retrieve insights from data for reporting, analytics, and data exploration purposes, enabling organizations to address business problems related to extracting value from large and complex datasets stored in the cloud.

Amazon Athena Pricing

Amazon Athena is a software that uses a pay-per-query pricing model, where users are charged based on the volume of data scanned by each query. Pricing does not involve upfront costs or complex licensing, and storage is billed separately according to the amount of data stored in Amazon S3.

Overall experience with Amazon Athena

Data Analyst
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“1. Speed in consultations and outstanding hierarchical organization in Athena”

4.0
Dec 1, 2025
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AWS Cloud Engineer
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Analyzing AWS Athena's Strengths and Weaknesses for Industrial Businesses”

3.0
Jan 30, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Athena Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(90 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
42%
4 Star
49%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Data Analyst
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    1. Speed in consultations and outstanding hierarchical organization in Athena

    4.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    I've been using Athena for a long time; it's a great data query service that makes it easy to understand the flow.
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  • Data Analyst
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    1. Speed in consultations and outstanding hierarchical organization in Athena

    4.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    I've been using Athena for a long time; it's a great data query service that makes it easy to understand the flow.
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Reviewer Insights for: Amazon Athena
Performance of Amazon Athena Across Market Features

Amazon Athena Likes & Dislikes

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query speed, query hierarchy configuration

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query speed, query hierarchy configuration

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query speed, query hierarchy configuration

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Dislike

AWS Athena takes a lot of time when we fire a long query, so depending upon the large database it takes more time to scan and manage the data, optimizing query is also difficult, there is a need for documentation for the beginners.

Dislike

AWS Athena takes a lot of time when we fire a long query, so depending upon the large database it takes more time to scan and manage the data, optimizing query is also difficult, there is a need for documentation for the beginners.

Dislike

AWS Athena takes a lot of time when we fire a long query, so depending upon the large database it takes more time to scan and manage the data, optimizing query is also difficult, there is a need for documentation for the beginners.