by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “Looker today launched support for Amazon Athena – the new interactive query service for data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that AWS unveiled at its re:Invent conference in November. The Looker connection to Amazon Athena is available immediately. Because Looker’s unique platform design is built to leverage modern data architectures, it can scale effortlessly – even to massive scale – by taking advantage of the newest database technologies. By using Looker with Athena, businesses can now leverage the power and speed of AWS’s newest query engine to easily explore vast amounts of data stored in Amazon S3.”

Lloyd Tabb, CTO and Co-Founder of Looker, commented, “Looker is all about removing data bottlenecks and delivering reliable, actionable data for all business users, whether it’s stored in standard transaction databases, or massive modern big-data lakes… Amazon Athena with Looker is a perfect match of modern data tools working together to access, explore, and analyze even the largest datasets, making previously static data lakes operational.”

Rahul Pathak, GM of Amazon Athena at Amazon Web Services, noted, “Amazon Athena makes it easy for companies to query all the data they’re storing in Amazon S3 using standard SQL in a pay-per-query model, without having to migrate it to a dedicated warehouse with no infrastructure to manage and no data loading required… Looker builds on that capability by allowing companies to define their data and provide a powerful interface for everyone, even users with no SQL experience, to query and visualize their data.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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