Item: Amazon Athena
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We extensively use AWS Load balancers and a lot of traffic needs retrospection. Athena makes it quite simple and useful to query our traffic and analyze the service architecture. We also use AWS S3 extensively. Athena makes it quite simple to query around half a million records daily. We have tried other open source tools, none of which has been able to work in as fewer efforts as Athena did. I would definitely recommend it to others.

Pros and Cons

Load Balance traffic analysis
Big data report generation
Micro services pattern query analysis

Query manager can incoperate GUI based query designer
Auto-completion engine sometimes overwrite the query
Time range selection should be implicit

Return on Investment

We have saved about 30% team bandwidth using Athena
We have saved about 100$ a month using athena for our analytics

Alternatives Considered

Traefik Mesh, DigitalOcean Kubernetes and Amazon DynamoDB

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon Athena delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Athena's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Athena live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Athena go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Athena again?

Yes

Other Software Used

New Relic, Datadog, Stoplight

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Athena extensively on our load balance traffic analyser. It helps us filter out bad requests and reason them quickly. Hence, a useful toolkit for monitoring stack We also use Athena on our report generation on a million per day datasets. It helps report generation quickly and easily on daily basis, which would've taken a lot of engineering efforts.

Didn't knew I could do a lot more with this

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Athena