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Serverless analytics pipelines using the Apache Spark engine in Amazon Athena

calendar_today July 2, 2026 person Avichay Marciano domain amazon-datazone

This post explores three integration approaches for connecting to Spark via Spark Connect: Jupyter notebook interactive analysis, VS Code local development, and dbt with Apache Airflow orchestration. Amazon Athena’s Spark engine eliminates cluster management overhead through serverless execution, addressing a longstanding pain point for organizations running Apache Spark workloads.

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