Chapter 1: Your First Query
This chapter is all about introducing you to the serverless analytics experience offered by Amazon Athena. Data is one of the most valuable assets you and your company generate. In recent years, we have seen a revolution in data retention, where companies are capturing all manner of data that was once ignored. Everything from logs to clickstream data, to support tickets are now routinely kept for years. Interestingly, the data itself is not what is valuable. Instead, the insights that are buried in that mountain of data are what we are after. Certainly, increased awareness and retention have made the information we need to power our businesses, applications, and decisions more available but the explosion in data sizes ...
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