# Amazon Athena

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-athena/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

## Kin Score — 36.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 73.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Amazon Athena Data Catalogs API** — Operations for managing data catalogs
- **Amazon Athena Databases API** — Operations for listing databases in a data catalog
- **Amazon Athena Named Queries API** — Operations for creating and managing saved SQL queries
- **Amazon Athena Prepared Statements API** — Operations for managing prepared SQL statements
- **Amazon Athena Query Executions API** — Operations for running and managing SQL query executions
- **Amazon Athena Table Metadata API** — Operations for listing and getting table metadata
- **Amazon Athena Tags API** — Operations for managing resource tags
- **Amazon Athena Work Groups API** — Operations for managing Athena work groups

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Athena Agentic Access** — 32 operations · 32 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Amazon Athena Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Athena Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Athena Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Athena Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Analyze log files and clickstream data stored in S3**
- **Run ad-hoc SQL queries on data lake without ETL**
- **Build serverless data pipelines and reporting solutions**
- **Query AWS service logs including CloudTrail, ELB, and VPC Flow Logs**
- **Perform cost analysis on AWS Cost and Usage Reports**
- **Enable self-service analytics for business intelligence teams**

## Tags

Amazon Athena, SQL, Analytics, Serverless

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-athena/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.