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title: Amazon Athena
sidebar_label: Amazon Athena
description: "Amazon Athena is an interactive query service for analyzing data in S3 using SQL."
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---

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import { DatabasePage } from '@site/src/components/databases';

export const databaseInfo = {"engine":"amazon_athena","engine_name":"Amazon Athena","module":"athena","documentation":{"description":"Amazon Athena is an interactive query service for analyzing data in S3 using SQL.","logo":"amazon-athena.jpg","homepage_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/athena/","categories":["CLOUD_AWS","QUERY_ENGINES","PROPRIETARY"],"pypi_packages":["pyathena[pandas]"],"connection_string":"awsathena+rest://{aws_access_key_id}:{aws_secret_access_key}@athena.{region_name}.amazonaws.com/{schema_name}?s3_staging_dir={s3_staging_dir}","drivers":[{"name":"PyAthena (REST)","pypi_package":"pyathena[pandas]","connection_string":"awsathena+rest://{aws_access_key_id}:{aws_secret_access_key}@athena.{region_name}.amazonaws.com/{schema_name}?s3_staging_dir={s3_staging_dir}","is_recommended":true,"notes":"No Java required. URL-encode special characters (e.g., s3:// -> s3%3A//)."},{"name":"PyAthenaJDBC","pypi_package":"PyAthenaJDBC","connection_string":"awsathena+jdbc://{aws_access_key_id}:{aws_secret_access_key}@athena.{region_name}.amazonaws.com/{schema_name}?s3_staging_dir={s3_staging_dir}","is_recommended":false,"notes":"Requires Amazon Athena JDBC driver."}],"engine_parameters":[{"name":"IAM Role Assumption","description":"Assume a specific IAM role for queries","json":{"connect_args":{"role_arn":"<role arn>"}}}],"notes":"URL-encode special characters in s3_staging_dir (e.g., s3:// becomes s3%3A//).","custom_errors":[{"regex_name":"SYNTAX_ERROR_REGEX","message_template":"Please check your query for syntax errors at or near \"%(syntax_error)s\". Then, try running your query again.","error_type":"SYNTAX_ERROR","category":"Query","description":"SQL syntax error","issue_codes":[1030]}]},"time_grains":{},"score":0,"max_score":0,"joins":true,"subqueries":true,"supports_dynamic_schema":false,"supports_catalog":false,"supports_dynamic_catalog":false,"ssh_tunneling":false,"query_cancelation":false,"supports_file_upload":false,"user_impersonation":false,"query_cost_estimation":false,"sql_validation":false};

<DatabasePage name="Amazon Athena" database={databaseInfo} />