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Amazon Athena mindshare

As of April 2025, the mindshare of Amazon Athena in the Search as a Service category stands at 10.6%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
10%
Healthcare Company
6%
University
4%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
Transportation Company
2%
Retailer
2%
Comms Service Provider
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Educational Organization
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Energy/Utilities Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Insurance Company
1%
Media Company
1%
Construction Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Leisure / Travel Company
1%
Renewables & Environment Company
1%

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Manilal Kasera - PeerSpot user
Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics
Verified user of Amazon Athena
Dec 9, 2022
A great AWS application that is easy to set up and simple to expand

Pros

"It's easy to set up the product."

Cons

"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. "
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Data Architect at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Amazon Athena
Aug 2, 2023
A compatible tool with a great UI, but requires you to build the metadata yourself

Pros

"Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products."

Cons

"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud."
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Gift Malahlela - PeerSpot user
Software Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Amazon Athena
Jan 24, 2023
Fast solution with data partitioning, federated queries, and per-query billing

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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."
Rajesh Nagaral - PeerSpot user
Director & Lead Solutions Architect at Abylle Solutions
Verified user of Amazon Athena
Dec 31, 2022
Very easy to use and integrations are handled smoothly

Pros

"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth. "

Cons

"The solution should include a better API for query services."
MusaMongwe - PeerSpot user
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of Amazon Athena
Jan 24, 2023
A stable serverless, interactive analytics service, but its dashboarding and reporting capabilities could be better

Pros

"Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay. "

Cons

"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."