Connect your Athena
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In order to connect your Athena cluster, Whaly needs some credentials. This guide will details the necessary steps:
Create an IAM User and generate an Access Key (+secret)
Select your region & work group
To connect Athena to Whaly, you need the following:
An AWS Project
Admin rights on the AWS Project (to create IAM User, custom policy and a S3 Bucket)
An S3 bucket on which the query results can be written.
To connect to your AWS Athena cluster, Whaly need to have a User and its credentials (Access Key). In order to create such a User,
When being asked which permissions and policies the user should have, that have the following rights:
Once the IAM User created with the proper policy, under it to retrieve the Access Key Id and the Access Key Secret.
In order to properly query your Athena data, Whaly needs to know in which region you want to run the compute. It should be one of the (ex. us-east1). A good practise would be to use the same one as the one you are using when doing SQL Queries in the console:
Also, you'll need to Inside Whaly, you'll need to pass the name of the Workgroup you wish to use when querying your data with Whaly.