Amazon Athena

User Guide

What is Amazon Athena?
Release Notes
- September 6, 2018
- August 23, 2018
- August 16, 2018
- August 7, 2018
- June 5, 2018
- May 17, 2018
- April 19, 2018
- April 6, 2018
- March 15, 2018
- February 2, 2018
- January 19, 2018
- November 13, 2017
- November 1, 2017
- October 19, 2017
- October 3, 2017
- September 25, 2017
- August 14, 2017
- August 4, 2017
- June 22, 2017
- June 8, 2017
- May 19, 2017
- April 4, 2017
- March 24, 2017
- February 20, 2017
Setting Up
Getting Started
Accessing Amazon Athena
Integration with AWS Glue
- Upgrading to the AWS Glue Data Catalog Step-by-Step
- FAQ: Upgrading to the AWS Glue Data Catalog
- Best Practices When Using Athena with AWS Glue
Connecting to Amazon Athena with ODBC and JDBC Drivers
- Using Athena with the JDBC Driver
- Connecting to Amazon Athena with ODBC
Security
- Setting User and Amazon S3 Bucket Permissions
- Configuring Encryption Options
Working with Source Data
- Tables and Databases Creation Process in Athena
- Names for Tables, Databases, and Columns
- Reserved Keywords
- Table Location in Amazon S3
- Partitioning Data
- Converting to Columnar Formats
Querying Data in Amazon Athena Tables
- Query Results
- Viewing Query History
- Views
- Querying Arrays
- Querying Arrays with Complex Types and Nested Structures
- Querying Arrays with Maps
- Querying JSON
Querying Geospatial Data
- What is a Geospatial Query?
- Input Data Formats and Geometry Data Types
- List of Supported Geospatial Functions
- Examples: Geospatial Queries
Querying AWS Service Logs
- Querying AWS CloudTrail Logs
- Querying Amazon CloudFront Logs
- Querying Classic Load Balancer Logs
- Querying Application Load Balancer Logs
- Querying Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Handling Schema Updates
- Types of Updates
- Updates in Tables with Partitions
Monitoring Logs and Troubleshooting
- Logging Amazon Athena API Calls with AWS CloudTrail
- Troubleshooting
SerDe Reference
- Using a SerDe
- Supported SerDes and Data Formats
- Compression Formats
DDL and SQL Reference
- Data Types
- DDL Statements
- SQL Queries, Functions, and Operators
  - SELECT
- Unsupported DDL
- Limitations
Code Samples, Service Limits, and Previous JDBC Driver
- Code Samples
- Using the Previous Version of the JDBC Driver
- Service Limits
Document History
AWS Glossary

Troubleshooting

Use these resources to troubleshoot problems with Amazon Athena.

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