How to ask friendly Amazon Goddess Athena to get your partitioned data from Hadoop cluster Do you hesitate if you need a Hadoop cluster for a few Hive tables only ? Do you query your data not so frequently ? Do you want to save money on servers' maintenance and put your lazy data on the cloud ? Amazon thought about it and suggest you a serverless service: Amazon Athena. The short description on Amazon Athena web page give us a good point to start: An interactive query service