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Amazon Athena Pros review quotes

Manilal Kasera - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics
Nov 22, 2022
It's easy to set up the product.
Rajesh Nagaral - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & Lead Solutions Architect at Abylle Solutions
Dec 19, 2022
The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth.
Gift Malahlela - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 20, 2023
One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform.
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MusaMongwe - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
Jan 23, 2023
Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay.
DS
Data Architect at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 26, 2023
Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products.
Ciro Baldim Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Analytics Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.
Sep 9, 2025
Amazon Athena works for scalability; I query data using tagged data that uses user usage of applications that contain very big data, millions and billions of lines, and it works very well.
Wojciech Doganowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
Sep 29, 2025
The best feature of Amazon Athena is that we can use Glue to build the schema from the data and then we can query the data directly on S3.
Shubham-Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CTO at QuriousBit
Oct 14, 2025
Amazon Athena's ability to query structured and unstructured data has been beneficial.
 

Amazon Athena Cons review quotes

Manilal Kasera - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics
Nov 22, 2022
If you compare it with Palantir, if you have some data and you want to quickly have a look at it, then that feature is not available in Amazon Cloud.
Rajesh Nagaral - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & Lead Solutions Architect at Abylle Solutions
Dec 19, 2022
The solution should include a better API for query services.
Gift Malahlela - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 20, 2023
One improvement I can suggest is that Athena needs to work better with third-parties. For example, the process of querying a Microsoft SQL warehouse could be improved.
Learn what your peers think about Amazon Athena. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
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MusaMongwe - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
Jan 23, 2023
I think it would be better if the product were more mature. It's still a young product compared to Power BI or Qlik. I find that development is a bit difficult, but it might be because I'm used to other tools. The dashboarding capabilities could be better. The reporting and statement generation could be better. I couldn't technically initiate picture-perfect reporting, for example, to send out statements every month for banking customers.
DS
Data Architect at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 26, 2023
You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud.
Ciro Baldim Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Analytics Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.
Sep 9, 2025
I use Python to query in Amazon Athena, and it's very complex and difficult just to save Amazon Athena results as an Excel file.
Wojciech Doganowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
Sep 29, 2025
In terms of its integration capabilities, I would say it's not straightforward. It works, but it's a little bit tricky.
Shubham-Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CTO at QuriousBit
Oct 14, 2025
Transaction support is one of the biggest missing features.