AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 636

A company needs to use a serverless interactive query service to analyze data in Amazon S3. The query service must support standard SQL.

Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Redshift
• B. AWS Glue
• C. Amazon Athena
• D. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that enables direct analysis of data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL with no infrastructure to manage. Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service, AWS Glue is an ETL and data cataloging tool, and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is designed for real-time streaming data ingestion rather than querying static S3 data.