Introducing Athena Flashcards
1
Q
What is Athena
A
An interactive query service that enables you to analyze and query data located in S3 using standard SQL.
2
Q
True or False: Athena is an AMI, and you must deploy and manage the Athena infrastructure yourself?
A
False. Athena is a serverless data processing service.
3
Q
What is the pricing model for Athena?
A
Per query / per TB scanned
4
Q
With Athena, you need to setup Extract/Transform/load (ETL) processes for the service to work?
A
False.
5
Q
A common use case for Athena is to query log files stored in S3?
A
True.
6
Q
Can you use Athena to generate business reports on data stored in S3?
A
Yes
7
Q
True or False: Athena can be used to query click-stream data?
A
True
