AWS: Athena

AWS Athena AWS Athena is a serverless interactive analytics offering by Amazon, which focuses on providing a means to query data stored in S3 buckets using SQL syntax. Optimization The AWS Athena billing model is primarily calculated from the volume of data scanned by each query. As such it it would behoove us to leverage a means to reduce data scanned; to which there exists a few options. In addition to realized cost savings, optimization techniques also serve to enhance query response performance.