Use Athena SQL - Amazon Athena
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 10, 2026.

Use Athena SQL

You can use Athena SQL to query your data in-place in Amazon S3 using the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an external Hive metastore, or federated queries using a variety of prebuilt connectors to other data sources.

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