Vaibhaw  R.
VR
Vaibhaw R.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Security and manage data"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

I am using S3 from past 2 years the query editir I generally use for SQLs is so good also, the processing time for commands in EC2 is so fast. Overall It is very good, but the expenses of using it a bit more in comparing other cloud providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

Only the higher cost on usage, if that could be made more flexible little bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zexi G.
ZG
Zexi G.
Java Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Process customer data on AWS Athena"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

1. Athena do efficient queries on AWS S3 data. It shows great performance even our data is Tb size.

2. Athena provide friendly UI to help user do queries and track their history queries.

3. Work well with AWS Quicksight to do data visualizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

1. Searching history queries not globally searching but in 500 history for each time.

2. There is few samples in AWS Athena handbook, not easy to get help from there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arjun S.
AS
Arjun S.
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Athena Review"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

I've been working on Athena as well as Bigquery. Athena's querying speeds are insane. One of the best available Data Warehouses out there.No hassles when it comes to integrate it with other AWS tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

BigQuery allows for direct integrations with Data Studio, which is really handy when we have to send, share reports with BI team, whereas Athena's integration with QuickSight could've been better.Also Athena's UI as compared to BigQuery's new UI seems a bit outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nung B.
NB
Nung B.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Relatively Quick and Easy Diving Into Load Balancer and S3 Logs"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

I like how quick it is to get started using Athena if you already have log data or text data residing in S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

I dislike that I don't use it enough and have to refresh my query building when I do go in. It would be nice if there were a way to organize stored queries more extensively than the way Athen does now. External source control can easily suffice, but nice to have in the console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PS
Parthasarathy S.
Senior Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Athena for Analytical Use"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

Very easy to use. It helps the analysts to do their work in a very effective way. It is connected with Tableau to bring most of the user interface how they want with the legacy systems too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

Cost associated with each query. If the charges are on monthly/yearly basis then ot is a cost effective tool. Sometimes the performance is slower when we want to scan the data with more than one key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Divyansh B.
DB
Divyansh B.
Associate Data Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS Review - would recommend"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

The security features it offers are best for everyone. Apart from security, the speed and the automatic updates are the cherry on the cake. It also helps to connect our data with looker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

Price is too high, packages are complex to understand, billing is also difficult for a normal person. I feel it is not accessible to every part of the world as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanishq D.
TD
Tanishq D.
Business Technology Solutions Associate
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon athena is a great tool to query s3 data but still isn't enough to convince me"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

Its ease of use and cost-effectiveness as it does not require any clusters or warehouses to run the queries on top of those. It uses a syntax which is very similar to SQL so that a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

As it does not use any dedicated clusters or compute resources the results for some queries are time taking. Also, it has very little support to connect with other data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nimesh V.
NV
Nimesh V.
Software Dev
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Preferred athena service for Serveless interactive query service"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

Amazon athena is serverless, cost effective easy to use and widely accessible as it run using sql queries also athena's open and versatile architecture doesn't restrict us to a specific tools and technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

Although amazon athena service is great but still it has few limitations like no data optimization as athena doesn't offer a lot of optimization capabilities.

Also it lacks indices, requires partitioning, lacks data manipulation operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services
UC
Verified User in Consumer Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazing and easy to use Query Editor"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

Amazon Athena provides a very simple and user-friendly query editor. It helps to find the exact error even in complex of SQL queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

I haven't faced any major issues till now. Sometimes it's a little slow to fetch the result from a query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suraj B.
SB
Suraj B.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Highly Recommend Amazon Athena"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Athena?

I like the performance of Athena over other datalake services in the market. Moreover the UI is proving query at ease even for multiple dtabases available in athena. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Athena?

When there is a error, sometimes we need to re open new tab and do the query, also pagination is not there for result set.

Could you please imporove these two things:) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.