Ever wish you could query data without needing to provision, manage, and configure infrastructure and software? Enter AWS Athena, a scalable, serverless, and interactive query service newly provided by Amazon Web Services. In this course, Getting Started with AWS Athena, you’ll learn how to utilize Athena and perform ad-hoc analysis of data in the Amazon Cloud. First, you’ll explore how to setup user access, and define schemas which point to your S3 data. Next, you’ll discover how to query information using SQL in a few simple steps. Finally, you’ll delve into how Athena works from behind the scenes and understand the best practices that drive Athena cost and performance optimization. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge necessary to start implementing solutions with AWS Athena on your own datasets in your own AWS environments.
Author Name: Aaron Medacco
Author Description:
Aaron has worked as both a cloud architect and software developer, specializing in solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). He holds several certifications encompassing development, architecture, and operations within the AWS cloud service suite. Aaron has contributed to companies offering services in the healthcare, training, point-of-sale and e-commerce sectors of business. His interests in the cloud space include automation, serverless computing, data, and security. When he isn’t working on hi… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Exploring AWS Athena
  26mins
• Establishing Access to Your Data
  10mins
• Understanding AWS Athena Internals
  17mins
• Creating Databases & Tables to Define Your Schema
  21mins
• Retrieving Information by Querying Tables with SQL
  13mins
• Optimizing Cost and Performance Using Best Practices
  33mins
• AWS Athena vs. Other Solutions
  10mins