Athena is Amazon’s tool for scanning data hosted in S3. It was released in late 2016, and it offers several useful capabilities while charging a modest price per query. Often compared to Amazon ...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Athena, a serverless query service that makes it easy to ...

Athena costs $5 per TB of data that the service scans. Query results get stored in whichever S3 bucket you’d like, and that means additional charges for S3 use.

Athena enables SQL queries directly on data stored in the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) storage service. Athena is a serverless solution that does not require any infrastructure configuration.

AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.