Amazon Athena announces managed query results to streamline analysis workflows

Amazon Athena announces managed query results, a new feature that automatically stores, encrypts, and manages the lifecycle of query results for you at no additional cost. Managed query results streamlines analysis and administration workflows by providing temporary query results storage, removing the requirement for Amazon S3 buckets to store results and separate processes to clean up results that you no longer need. Now, Athena offers both service-managed, temporary result storage and customer-managed S3 storage options to meet different needs.

Whether you're working on a team conducting interactive analysis across multiple workgroups or automating workgroup creation through code, managed query results allows you to run queries in fewer steps. For example, if you create a new workgroup for an analysis that you'll perform, you can now choose to have Athena manage your result data for you. This allows you to run queries without first specifying the S3 result location, ensures results are encrypted, and avoids cost from storing query results after they're no longer needed. When you use managed query results, you can continue to access query results through the same interfaces as you can when using an S3 bucket in your account.

To get started, use the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI to configure your new or existing workgroups to use managed query results.

Managed query results is generally available in all regions where Athena is available, except GovCloud and China regions. To learn more, see Managed query results in the Athena User Guide.