Querying data in S3 with Athena

At this point, we know we need something else to read the data that was collected, transformed, and cataloged by Glue. You can see tables and schemas on Glue but you cannot see the content of the files, that is, the actual data. For that, we need to use Athena:

  1. Go to the Console and open up the Athena console. If it's the first time you are doing this, the Get Started page will show up. Hit Get started and have a look at the interface:
Query editor in the Athena console

The query editor is where the action happens: you can write SQL queries to interact with files directly. This means you don't have to set ...

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