Serverless Amazon Athena and the AWS Glue Data Catalog

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Explain serverless AWS Athena capabilities, as well as its storage and querying concepts
  • Access Amazon Athena and its different use cases
  • Create databases and tables in Athena
  • Explain AWS Glue and its benefits
  • Work with data catalogs and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog

This chapter delves into the capabilities of AWS Athena. You'll also work with AWS Glue, and learn how to populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

Introduction

Consider a situation where you're just about to leave for the day from the office, and at that very moment your boss asks you to run a report on a new, complex dataset. You're asked to finish ...

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