Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon S3. As a development environment in Paradime, Athena enables dbt™️ development from Paradime's Code IDE.

IP RESTRICTIONS

Make sure to allow traffic from one of the Paradime IPs in your firewall depending on the data location selected.

👉 See also: Paradime IP addresses.

Setup Instructions

1. Click Settings in the top menu bar of the Paradime interface to access Account Settings

2. In the left sidebar, click "Connections"

3. Click "Add New" next to the Code IDE section

4. Select "Amazon Athena"

5. In the Profile Configuration field, add at least these required parameters. For additional configuration options, see the Profile Fields Reference section.

s3_staging_dir: s3://analytics-staging/athena/query-results/   # Store query results
s3_data_dir: s3://analytics-data/raw/                          # Raw data location
s3_data_naming: table_unique                                   # Unique table naming
region_name: us-west-2                                         # AWS region
database: analytics_prod                                       # Production database
num_retries: 3                                                 # Query retry attempts

After adding the configuration, ensure it's properly formatted using a YAML formatter like YAML Formatter.

1. Provide a dbt™ Profile Name (This should match with the profile name set in your dbt_project.yml).

2. In the Target field, enter "dev". This is the default target your dbt project will use for development work.

3. The "Schema" field is pre-configured, but you can change it to specify the schema where dbt will build objects.

4. The "Threads" value is pre-configured to 1, but you can adjust this number to specify how many parallel operations your dbt project can run.

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Example Profile Configuration

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Profile Fields Reference

Field	Description	Example	Default	Required
s3_staging_dir	S3 bucket location where Athena will store query results	s3://my-bucket/athena/staging/	None	✅
s3_data_dir	S3 bucket location where Athena will store table data	s3://my-bucket/athena/data/	None	✅
s3_data_naming	Naming convention used when writing to S3	table_unique	None	❌
region_name	AWS region where your Athena instance is located	us-east-1	None	✅
database	Name of the Athena database to connect to	analytics_db	None	✅
schema	Default schema where dbt will build objects. This is configured in the UI "Schema" field	reporting	None	✅
aws_profile_name	Profile name from your AWS shared credentials file	default	None	❌
threads	Number of concurrent operations. This is configured in the UI "Threads" field	4	1	❌
num_retries	Number of times to retry a failed query before failing	3	5	❌

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Important Notes

• All S3 paths should end with a forward slash (/)

• The AWS credentials can be configured through environment variables, AWS credentials file, or IAM roles