Although structured data remains the backbone for many data platforms, increasingly unstructured or semistructured data is used to enrich existing information or to create new insights. Amazon Athena enables you to analyze a wide variety of data. This includes tabular data in comma-separated value (CSV) or Apache Parquet files, data extracted from log files using regular expressions, and JSON-formatted data. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
