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Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that lets you run standard SQL directly against data stored in S3. It handles ad-hoc analysis and log inspection without requiring you to provision servers or manage ETL pipelines, effectively turning your object storage into a queryable data lake.

This approach suits teams already deep in the AWS ecosystem who need quick insights without maintaining a database cluster. The main friction point is the lack of a free tier; you pay from $0.3000 per DPU-Hour, meaning even small exploratory queries incur costs, and pricing details require contacting sales for specific volume commitments.

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  • Free tier No
  • Starting price from $0.3000 DPU-Hour
  • Regions 15 · 6 continents
  • SLA uptime 99.99%
  • Compliance 13 certifications
  • Provider health A

Decision score

51 /100
Features 29
Pricing 40
Reliability 100
Community 0
Ecosystem 93

Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.

Trust & reach via AWS

Compliance
  • C5
  • CSA STAR
  • FedRAMP
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA
  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 27017
  • ISO 27018
  • ISO 9001
  • PCI DSS
  • SOC 1 Type II
  • SOC 2 Type II
+1 more
SLA uptime
  • compute99.99%
  • database99.99%
  • networking99.99%
  • storage99.99%
Global reach

15 regions across 6 continents

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
  • South America

Pricing tiers 3

Tier / PlanPriceUnitRegion
USE1-ReservedCapacityInDPUHours $0.3000 DPU-Hour us-east-1
USE1-CodeExecutionInDPUHours $0.3500 DPU-Hour us-east-1
USE1-DataScannedInTB $5.00 Terabytes us-east-1

Prices in USD. Micro-prices are quoted per 1M units; "< $0.000001" marks rates below our stored precision. Subject to change — check the provider's official page.

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