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Working with Athena

In the previous chapters, you learned about the AWS Glue and Amazon S3 services and how they fit into the data wrangling pipeline. In this chapter, we will explore how Amazon Athena service can help in the data discovery, data structuring, data enriching, and data quality phases of the data wrangling pipeline. We will work with some practical examples and perform an analysis on the data to keep it more interesting.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Understanding Amazon Athena
  • Advanced data discovery and data structuring with Athena
  • Enriching data from multiple sources using Athena
  • Setting up a serverless data quality pipeline with Athena

Understanding Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive, serverless analytical ...

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