
AWS Athena replacement for better price performance
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Comparing Presto Services: 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
AWS Athena Replacement | Case Studies
See why companies are using Ahana Cloud as an AWS Athena alternative

5.5X price performance improvement

AWS Athena
- No control over the compute engine
- Hard to run complex queries at higher scale
- Limited concurrency
- Queries may get queued up
Ahana Cloud
- 44% in cost savings in benchmark comparison across 8 complex queries
- 5.5X price performance improvement
- Faster, more predictable queries that don’t stall or fail
- Scale Presto on demand to minimize costs
- More control and visibility into deployment
AWS Athena
- 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 5x price performance comparisons
- Can scale to improve performance to many times faster
- No more failing queries
- More control and visibility into deployment
Understanding how to increase performance and reduce cost is critical to today’s data landscape. If you’re looking for an AWS Athena replacement that’s easy and provides better price-performance book time with an engineer.

3x better price performance

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?
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