You can use Athena SQL to query your data in-place in Amazon S3 using the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an external Hive metastore, or federated queries using a variety of prebuilt connectors to other data sources.
You can also:
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Connect to business intelligence tools and other applications using Athena's JDBC and ODBC drivers.
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Query AWS service logs.
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Query Apache Iceberg tables, including time travel queries, and Apache Hudi datasets.
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Query geospatial data.
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Query using machine learning inference from Amazon SageMaker AI.
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Query using your own user-defined functions.
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Speed up query processing of highly-partitioned tables and automate partition management by using partition projection.