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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.
 

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.
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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.