Using Amazon Athena versus Redshift Spectrum
Amazon Athena and Redshift Spectrum are two data querying services offered by AWS that allow users to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that quickly analyzes data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It allows users to analyze data directly from Amazon S3 without creating or managing any infrastructure. Athena is best suited for ad hoc querying and interactive analysis of large amounts of unstructured data that is stored in Amazon S3.
For example, imagine a marketing team needs to analyze customer behavior data stored in Amazon S3 to make informed decisions about their marketing campaigns. They can use Athena to query the data in S3, extract insights, and make informed decisions about how to improve their campaigns.
On the other hand, Amazon Redshift Spectrum (an extension of Amazon Redshift) allows users to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 with the same...