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Category: Amazon Athena
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
Connect, discover, and govern data across silos with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse’s new data catalog and permissions capabilities, enabling centralized access and fine-grained controls.
Simplify custom contact center insights with Amazon Connect analytics data lake
Amazon Connect’s analytics data lake centralizes customer data for powerful performance analysis without complex pipelines.
AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023
Last week I saw astonishing number of new feature and service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts […]
Introducing Athena Provisioned Capacity
Update October 31, 2023 — Starting today, the minimum billed duration for provisioned capacity is one hour instead of eight hours as it was at the time we initially released this capability. The original reference to the sweet spot of $100 monthly spend to start using provisioned capacity is not relevant anymore. We have updated the […]
AWS Week in Review – March 20, 2023
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and Spring is almost here! If you’re curious about AWS news from the previous seven days, I got you covered. Last Week’s Launches Here are the […]
New — Amazon Athena for Apache Spark
When Jeff Barr first announced Amazon Athena in 2016, it changed my perspective on interacting with data. With Amazon Athena, I can interact with my data in just a few steps—starting from creating a table in Athena, loading data using connectors, and querying using the ANSI SQL standard. Over time, various industries, such as financial […]
AWS Week in Review – November 21, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and the News Blog team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent! Many of us will be there next week and it would be great to meet […]