Accessing Athena

You can access Athena using the AWS Management Console, through a JDBC or ODBC connection, using the Athena API, or using the Athena CLI.

To get started with the console, see Getting Started.
To learn how to use JDBC or ODBC drivers, see Connecting to Amazon Athena with JDBC andConnecting to Amazon Athena with ODBC.
To use the Athena API, see the Amazon Athena API Reference.
To use the CLI, install the AWS CLI and then type aws athena help from the command line to see available commands. For information about available commands, see the AWS Athena command line reference.
For information about Athena service endpoints that you can connect to programmatically, see Amazon Athena endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

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When should I use Athena?

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