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Querying Compressed S3 Logs Using AWS Athena: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Cloud & AI Engineering
Arina Technologies
Cloud & AI Engineering

Managing logs in cloud environments can often come with challenges, particularly when using solutions like Elasticsearch, which require managing clusters, shards, and other components that increase both cost and complexity. If you're looking for an alternative that provides the same querying capabilities without the added overhead, AWS Athena is a powerful tool to consider. In this blog post, we'll walk you through how to leverage Athena with Amazon S3 to efficiently query logs from CloudWatch without breaking the bank. Refer How to Export AWS CloudWatch Logs to OpenSearch (Elasticsearch) for details on exporting CloudWatch logs to OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.