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Gareth Eagar
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Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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Hands-on – creating an Amazon Athena workgroup and configuring Athena settings

In this section, we’re going to create and configure a new Athena workgroup, and set a per query data limit:

  1. Log into AWS Management Console and access the Athena service using this link: https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena.
  2. Expand the left-hand menu and click on Workgroups to access the workgroup management page.

Figure 11.2: Athena Console showing Workgroups

  1. On the workgroup management page, click on Create workgroup and enter the following values for our new workgroup. For the items not listed here, leave the defaults as-is:
    • Workgroup name: Provide a descriptive name for the workgroup, such as datalake-user-sandbox.
    • Description: Optionally, provide a description for this workgroup, such as Sandbox workgroup for new datalake-users.
    • Query result location (in the Query result configuration section): In the hands-on exercises...
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Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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