# Amazon Athena

Revision 1 (11 October 2026) · Modeled snapshot · through 8 October 2026.

All figures are research-informed estimates of analytical activity. Significant errors may remain; decimal places do not imply measurement precision.

Layer: compute. Values cover the years in which this category appears in the public timeline. Absence is not proof of zero use.

## Names and inspection notes

### 2016–2018: Amazon Athena

AWS-managed SQL query service. Its workloads are counted here once, separately from Presto.

### 2019: Amazon Athena

AWS-managed SQL query service. Its workloads are counted here once, separately from Presto and Trino. Relational federation entered public preview in November 2019; its small allocation represents early use. General availability followed in November 2020. Federated native covers work against other databases’ native relational tables; S3 files and open tables keep their own storage categories.

### 2020–2021: Amazon Athena

AWS-managed SQL query service. Its workloads are counted here once, separately from Presto and Trino. Federated native covers work against other databases’ native relational tables; S3 files and open tables keep their own storage categories.

### 2022–2026: Amazon Athena

AWS-managed SQL query service. Its workloads are counted here once, separately from Presto and Trino. Engine version 3 builds on Trino; earlier SQL engine versions used Presto. Federated native covers work against other databases’ native relational tables; S3 files and open tables keep their own storage categories.

## Annual estimates

| Year | Name in this year | Share of full compute layer | Connections and details |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [2016](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2016.md) | Amazon Athena | 0.5% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2016/compute/athena.md) |
| [2017](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2017.md) | Amazon Athena | 1.5% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2017/compute/athena.md) |
| [2018](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2018.md) | Amazon Athena | 2% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2018/compute/athena.md) |
| [2019](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2019.md) | Amazon Athena | 2.5% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2019/compute/athena.md) |
| [2020](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2020.md) | Amazon Athena | 3% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2020/compute/athena.md) |
| [2021](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2021.md) | Amazon Athena | 3.5% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2021/compute/athena.md) |
| [2022](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2022.md) | Amazon Athena | 4% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2022/compute/athena.md) |
| [2023](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2023.md) | Amazon Athena | 4% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2023/compute/athena.md) |
| [2024](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2024.md) | Amazon Athena | 4% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2024/compute/athena.md) |
| [2025](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2025.md) | Amazon Athena | 4% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2025/compute/athena.md) |
| [2026](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2026.md) | Amazon Athena | 4% | [Inspect](https://history.columnar.tech/connections/2026/compute/athena.md) |

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