AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the general availability of AWS Athena, a serverless query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Significance
This marked the official public release of Athena, immediately addressing a major pain point for data lake users and signaling a shift towards serverless analytics on S3.
Key facts
- Date
- 2016-11-30
- Type
- release
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA