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Amazon Athena vs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Athena

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Athena at their data stored in S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get results in seconds. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run. You can use Athena to process logs, perform ad-hoc analysis, and run…

    $5

    per TB of Data Scanned

    Amazon EKS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.

    $0.10

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
    Amazon EKS Cluster
    $.10
    per hour of each cluster created
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Athena and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Small Businesses
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon AthenaAmazon EKS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you are looking to take a lot of the traditional "database administration" work off someone's plate, going with Amazon Athena certainly has "no code" options to optimize lots of database tasks. I would say this option is less appropriate if you have other Microsoft things at play, such as Power BI.
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    Amazon AWS
    It is well suited when you want to have a Kubernetes cluster in AWS Cloud and want to avoid all the management overhead of maintaining your own cluster in terms of the control plane. EKS seems to be lacking in features when compared with AKS and GKE. Backups, service mesh, and monitoring have a lot of room for improvements.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Nested Schemas like JSON data structure
    • Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better
    • Performance Improvement
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    Amazon AWS
    • Upgrade the kubernetes clusters to the latest version with a single click
    • Auto scaling policies to automatically scale the nodes
    • Detailed logs and events on the cluster within the EKS clusters portal, cloudwatch logs and metrics
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Response caching can be improved.
    • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
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    Amazon AWS
    • AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
    • Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
    • EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Easy to use. Scalable. Gets the job of data warehousing setup done. Using the datalake on S3 has become super convenient.
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    Amazon AWS
    Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • The query speeds help us make more decisions in a day (speed).
    • If you need more horsepower for specific times in the day this option helps scale.
    • The security of your environment is well protected too.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Good performance of platform without hiccups
    • Less number of people required to manage cluster
    • Easier to deploy new microservices
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