Amazon Athena support

Dataedo introduces native connector to Amazon Athena. Amazon Athena is a query engine on Amazon Web Services. It is unique in a way that it provides access to AWS Glue Data Catalog, which holds metadata from various AWS services.

Connector features

Data catalog

Dataedo documents metadata of following objects:

• Tables
• Views

Using Athena connector you can extract metadata from:

• AWS Glue Data Catalog
• Amazon S3
• Amazon DocumentDB
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon Redshift

Data lineage

Dataedo does not support data lineage for Amazon Athena.

Data profiling

Dataedo does not support profiling for Amazon Athena.

How to connect

Provide connection details:

1. AWS Region - AWS region in which Athena reside.
2. Access Token - IAM user access key ID.
3. Secret Token - IAM user secret key.
4. Data Catalog - Data catalog (athena data source) you want to connect to.
5. Workgroup - Athena workgroup
6. Database - Athena database.

To configure AWS services check detailed connection instruction.

Connector specification

Supported versions

Dataedo Athena connector was tested with Athena Engine version 2. Athena Engine version 1 is not officially supported.

Tested data catalogs

• S3 - Aws Glue Data Catalog
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon DocumentDB
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Amazon CloudWatch Metrics

Imported objects

Tables metadata

Views metadata