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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)

Athena

  • Serverless query service to perform analytics on S3
  • Uses SQL language to query the files
  • Runs directly on S3 (no copying needed)
  • Output stored in S3
  • Built on Presto engine
  • Supports CSV, JSON, ORC, AVI and Parquet file formats

Use compressed or columnar data for cost-savings (due to less scan)

Can be used along with AWS Transcribe (automatic speech recognition service that converts audio to text) to analyze audio for sentiment analysis.

Last updated: 2022-05-20