Amazon Athena — Serverless SQL on S3

How Athena really works: a Trino-based engine reading tables from the Glue Data Catalog, billed per byte scanned, and the levers that cut that bill (partitions, partition projection, Parquet), workgroups and capacity reservations, Iceberg MERGE and time travel, federated queries, and the failures interviewers probe.

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