In a news release issued today, the company said, "With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Amazon Athena at their data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to ...

Athena costs $5 per TB of data that the service scans. Query results get stored in whichever S3 bucket you’d like, and that means additional charges for S3 use. More detail is here.

AWS announced Amazon Athena to enable standard SQL queries on data stored in AWS S3 at the AWS re:invent conference this morning.

The Amazon Redshift Data API enables database connections and data access from programming languages and platforms supported by the AWS SDK, including Java, Ruby, Go, Python, PHP, Node.js and C++.