🛢️ Using Athena as a Destination in Ferry
Ferry allows you to ingest data into a Destination database from variety of source
📌 Prerequisites
Before using Athena as a destination, ensure:
- You have an AWS S3 bucket where the data is stored.
- You have a valid AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
- You have a valid Work Group
destination_uri
Format
To connect Ferry to a Athena database, use the following connection string format:
plaintext
"athena://<bucket-name>?access_key_id=aa&access_key_secret=aa®ion=<region>&work_group=<work-group>",
Parameters:
bucket-name
- Name of the S3 bucket where data is stored.access_key_id
(String) – AWS Access Key ID for authentication.access_key_secret
(String) – AWS Secret Access Key for authentication.region
(String) – AWS region where the bucket is hosted.work-group
(String, Optional) – Path to a specific file or folder inside the S3 bucket.