- Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy for you to analyze data directly in Amazon S3, using standard SQL.
- Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.
- Analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) data lake and 25-plus data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.
- Athena is based on Presto.