Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a web service from AWS that enables you to store data at scale in the cloud. Amazon S3 supports encrypting data at rest. Amazon Athena is a query service that integrates with Amazon S3 allowing you to easily access and analyze your data.

By combining Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena you can achieve end-to-end security:

• Data is stored encrypted in Amazon S3 (at rest)
• All communications within AWS are encrypted (in transit)
• Amazon Athena query results are encrypted (at rest)

In this hands-on lab, you will upload data files to Amazon S3. Configure one of the files to be stored encrypted. And you will use Amazon Athena to query both files.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

• Encrypt data on S3
• Define a schema in order to create a database and table in Amazon Athena
• Perform basic queries in Athena
• Encrypt the query results

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Amazon S3
• Amazon Athena

The following courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• Understanding S3 Encryption Mechanisms to Secure your Data
• Analyzing Data with Amazon Athena

Lab Environment

After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:

Updates

April 14th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

January 21st, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

December 21, 2021 - Updated grammar.

October 5, 2021 - Added a note about changes to the interface and how to access the previous interface.

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab