Summary
In this chapter, you explored how Amazon Athena can serve as a powerful platform for gathering, classifying, validating, and transforming geospatial data. You learned how to configure Athena and point it to geospatial datasets in various formats. We also saw how spatial functions and aggregations provide lightning-fast insights into our location-based data. Through understanding the geospatial data types supported, the information in this chapter will also provide you with insight into data transformations to meet your organization’s requirements.
The AWS cloud provides numerous scalability and efficiency benefits that save money and demand fewer energy resources when compared to legacy on-premises enterprise GIS environments. In the next chapter, we’ll combine the power of containerized computing in the cloud with your geospatial workloads for maximum agility and performance.
