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.