# Amazon Athena: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 2 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-athena

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Data virtualization](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-virtualization/index.md) | 0% | 80 | 50% | 2 |
| [Data warehouses](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/index.md) | 0% | 14 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "If you want zero infrastructure maintenance and operate on AWS, use AWS Athena Federated Queries." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Data virtualization)
- "If your query load is very light but your data is large, Athena + S3 may be even cheaper." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Data warehouses)

## And against it

- "While excellent if you live entirely in AWS, migrating out becomes incredibly difficult." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Data virtualization)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon Athena, from 4 of the 11 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- accio.com: 1
- airbyte.com: 1
- amazonaws.cn: 1
- aws.amazon.com: 1 (its own site)
- brilworks.com: 1
- capterra.co.uk: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- chronosphere.io: 1
- clickhouse.com: 1
- cloud.google.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://accio.com/biz-cheap/low-cost-data-warehouse: 1
- https://airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools: 1
- https://amazonaws.cn/en/athena/pricing: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/athena/pricing: 1
- https://brilworks.com/data-engineering-tools/warehouse-platform-picker: 1
- https://capterra.co.uk/software/1030695/google-cloud-bigquery: 1
- https://capterra.com/p/268689/Google-Cloud-BigQuery/pricing: 1

## In its own words

What Amazon Athena's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Free plan or trial: AWS Free Tier (https://aws.amazon.com/)
- Hosting: North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand
- Customers named: Siemens Mobility, Booking.com, Audi, United, TUI, Moments Lab, March Networks, Precisely

## What it publishes

Every page aws.amazon.com exposes, read 2026-09-28: 280316 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 27117 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- case study: 2476 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2019-03-01
- webinar or virtual event: 2057 pages, 16 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-01
- conference or event: 1482 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-11-01
- report or ebook: 1090 pages, 16 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-01
- comparison: 1521 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-01
- template or tool: 150 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-05-01
- glossary or explainer: 6521 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 351 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 34 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/vi/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest/
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/tr/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest/
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/th/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest/
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/tw/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest/
- Recent: 2026-09-01 report or ebook: Sagemaker cicd notebook ai manifest https://aws.amazon.com/es/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/sagemaker-cicd-notebook-ai-manifest/

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.