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Workgroups and governance
This revision card explains Workgroups and governance. It starts from the need that everyone sharing one open Athena setup can overspend and mix result buckets. It describes workgroups isolate users/settings, enforce output locations, and publish metrics. The how-to section covers how to create analytics vs ad-hoc workgroups; encrypt results; IAM per workgroup. An example on the card is interns use ad-hoc with 1 GB scan limit; finance uses analytics with wider limits.
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Why do we need it?
Everyone sharing one open Athena setup can overspend and mix result buckets.
What is it?
Workgroups isolate users/settings, enforce output locations, and publish metrics.
workgroup
How to do it
Create analytics vs ad-hoc workgroups; encrypt results; IAM per workgroup.
Example
Interns use ad-hoc with 1 GB scan limit; finance uses analytics with wider limits.