AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 - Hands-On! - Introduction to Amazon Athena

The video tutorial introduces Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service for S3 data lakes. It explains how Athena uses Presto under the hood and supports various data formats like CSV, JSON, ORC, Parquet, and Avro. The tutorial discusses the advantages of columnar and splittable formats for efficient data querying. It highlights Athena's flexibility in handling structured and semi-structured data, its integration with AWS Glue, and its use cases, such as querying web logs and staging data for Redshift. The video also covers Athena's integration with tools like Jupyter, Zeppelin, and QuickSight.

How does Athena handle structured and semi-structured data?

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Describe the integration capabilities of Athena with other tools.

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