AWS Athena¶

Creating a Connection¶

Before connecting to AWS Athena, ensure that the IAM user, whose credentials will be used, has the following permissions granted:

Athena Permissions¶

athena:StartQueryExecution
athena:GetQueryExecution
athena:GetQueryResults
athena:StartQueryExecution
athena:GetWorkGroup
athena:StopQueryExecution
athena:CreatePreparedStatement
athena:UpdatePreparedStatement
athena:GetPreparedStatement
athena:DeletePreparedStatement
s3:ListBucket
s3:GetObject
s3:PutObject
s3:GetBucketLocation
s3:GetObject
s3:ListBucket
s3:PutObject
s3:ListMultipartUploadParts
s3:AbortMultipartUpload
glue:GetDatabase,
glue:GetDatabases,
glue:CreateDatabase
glue:CreateTable
glue:GetTable
glue:GetTables

S3 Permissions¶

s3:ListBucket
s3:GetObject
s3:PutObject
s3:GetBucketLocation
s3:GetObject
s3:ListBucket
s3:PutObject
s3:ListMultipartUploadParts
s3:AbortMultipartUpload

Glue Permissions¶

glue:GetDatabase,
glue:GetDatabases,
glue:CreateDatabase
glue:CreateTable
glue:GetTable
glue:GetTables

Once permissions are defined, you can setup the connection by defining:

AWS Key
AWS Secret
Database
Region
S3 Staging Directory

Connecting an Asset¶

Once a connection is defined, you can start using it to create assets. To create assets, you will need to select existing table or run a custom SQL query.