Organizing workloads with WorkGroups and saved queries
Athena WorkGroups allow you to separate different use cases, applications, or users into independent collections. Each workgroup can have its own settings, including results location, query engine version, and query history, to name a few. In Figure 3.1, you can see the various WorkGroups we have created while authoring this book. This view lets you see the status of each workgroup at a glance. More in-depth settings or the creation of new WorkGroups are just a click away. Every Athena query runs in a workgroup. So far, we haven't set any specific workgroup for our queries, so they've been running the "primary" workgroup. The primary workgroup is special and is automatically created for you the first time you use Athena.
You can see an overview of the Athena WorkGroups screen here:
Athena customers often choose to use different WorkGroups...