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Explore AWS Athena - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Amazon Web Services: Data Services
Explore AWS Athena
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at Athena. If we click on the tutorial, the tutorial allows us to create a table for ELB, or Elastic Load Balancer Data, logs basically, using Athena. And it tells us that Athena is an interactive query service that allows us to query data from S3 without the need for clusters or data warehouses. I'm going to click Next, and it tells me to query the ELB log files. I need to define a corresponding table in Athena. This is metadata that I'm defining over file-based data that's stored in S3. This takes me to the add table wizard. And I've already done this one time, so I'm just going to click through the steps pretty quickly, but I can create a database here, and then I can specify the table name, and here's the input data. You can see it here, it's publicly available data. Actually, I'll probably just do it again here. I'll create a new one. And I'll it fridayDemo. And the table name is…
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