AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 285

A company stores several terabytes of data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs to query the data by using standard SQL and does not want to set up infrastructure.

Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon RDS
• B. Amazon Redshift
• C. Amazon Athena
• D. Amazon EC2

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that enables the analysis of data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL without requiring any infrastructure setup. In contrast, Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift require provisioning and managing database instances, while Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering that requires manual configuration of servers and software.