SAA-C03 Q597 · Analytics

Question

A marketing company receives a large amount of new clickstream data in Amazon S3 from a marketing campaign. The company needs to analyze the clickstream data in Amazon S3 quickly. Then the company needs to determine whether to process the data further in the data pipeline. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Accepted Answer

**Option B: AWS Glue crawler + Amazon Athena** meets all requirements:

1. **Quick analysis of data in S3**: Amazon Athena is a **serverless interactive query service** that lets you run SQL queries directly against data in S3. No data loading or ETL is required — you point Athena at your S3 data and start querying immediately.

2. **Determine whether to process further**: Athena is perfect for **ad-hoc, exploratory analysis**. You can quickly inspect data patterns, volumes, and quality to decide if further pipeline processing is warranted.

3. **LEAST operational overhead**: 
   - **AWS Glue crawler** automatically discovers the schema and creates/updates tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog — no manual table definition needed.
   - **Amazon Athena** is fully serverless — no clusters to pr

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