Amazon Athena - Paradime

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that makes it easy to analyze data stored in Amazon S3. As a DinoAI agent environment in Paradime, Athena enables running dbt™ models and queries during DinoAI background agent sessions.

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Setup Instructions

Click Settings in the top menu bar of the Paradime interface to access Account Settings
In the left sidebar, click Connections
Click Add New next to the DinoAI Background Agent Environment section
Select Amazon Athena
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.

Provide a dbt™ Profile Name (this should match the profile name set in your dbt_project.yml).
In the Target field, enter dinoai. This is the target your dbt™ project will use during DinoAI background agent sessions.
The Schema field is pre-configured, but you can change it to specify the schema where dbt™ will build objects.
The Threads value is pre-configured to 1, but you can adjust this to specify how many parallel operations your dbt™ project can run.

Example Profile Configuration

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. 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. Configured in the UI Threads field	`4`	`1`	❌
num_retries	Number of times to retry a failed query before failing	`3`	`5`	❌

Important Notes

All S3 paths should end with a forward slash (/)
AWS credentials can be configured through environment variables, AWS credentials file, or IAM roles

​Setup Instructions

​Example Profile Configuration

​Profile Fields Reference

Setup Instructions

Example Profile Configuration

Profile Fields Reference