Amazon Athena Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics helps you easily build Apache Flink apps, streaming Java apps, and real-time SQL queries to get real-time analytics, clickstream analytics, log analytics, event analytics, and iot analytics.

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.