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Amazon Athena vs AWS Lambda: Comparing two solutions for Big Data Analysis

Agustin Navcevich on August 22, 2018

Most of the solutions in Big Data analysis are based around many of the AWS services offerings — they are quite a lot by the way. I work in a small...
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John Hotterbeekx

Love reading the process you went through, thanks for sharing! We recently moved to Amazon Athena in one of our products and I agree with you, it is an amazing service they offer!

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Agustin Navcevich

Yes completely, Athena has improved a lot for us. Glad you enjoyed reading our process!

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rhymes

Thanks for the walkthrough, very interesting.

Do you have an idea of the cost reductions between the first version and the second?

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Agustin Navcevich

I don't have the exact numbers but I can say that we reduced the cost like in a 2000 factor. Our bottleneck is still transferring data from S3.

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rhymes

Well, a 2000x reduction is A LOT of less money. Good job!

What do you mean transfering data from S3? You mean the cost of downloading Athena results?