Getting started
This tutorial walks you through using Amazon Athena to query data. You'll create a table based on sample data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service, query the table, and check the results of the query.
The tutorial uses live resources, so you are charged for the queries that you run. You aren't charged for the sample data in the location that this tutorial uses, but if you upload your own data files to Amazon S3, charges do apply.
Prerequisites
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If you have not already done so, sign up for an Amazon Web Services account.
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Using the same Amazon Web Services Region (for example, US West (Oregon)) and account that you are using for Athena, follow the steps to create a bucket in Amazon S3 to hold your Athena query results. You will configure this bucket to be your query output location.