AWS Athena and Ahana Cloud
Looking at Amazon Athena and Ahana Cloud
Serverless Presto
Easy to manage
- Built for less experienced data teams
- Serverless – easy to get started
- Little visibility, control of your deployment
- Cost effective for low/infrequent usage on small to medium sized data volumes
Managed Service for Presto
Full flexibility, easy to manage
- Built for data teams of all experience levels
- Managed service – easy to get started
- Moderate level of control of deployment without the complexity
- Dedicated support from Presto experts
Case Studies
See why companies use Ahana Cloud
Carbon saw queries run 90% faster for their workloads with Ahana Cloud compared to other Presto services
Other Presto services
- Hard to run complex queries and scale past a certain point
- Queries can be queued with no control over when
- Very limited concurrency as a result of queue
- Little visibility, control of deployment
Ahana Cloud
- 90% faster with a 10 node cluster, providing greater than 50x price performance comparisons
- Can scale to improve performance to many times faster
- No more failing queries
- More control and visibility into deployment
3x better price performance with Ahana Cloud
The Presto engine was designed for scale, and it’s feature-built just for a query engine. Ahana Cloud made it easy for us to use Presto in the cloud.”
AWS Athena FAQ
Why does a single AWS Athena query get stuck in QUEUED state before being executed?
Why am I getting zero records when I use AWS Athena to query a CSV file?
Do I have to use AWS Lambda to connect to data sources with Athena?
How do I get deterministic performance out of Amazon Athena?