There are a bunch of BI tools that can connect to Athena, we use Tableau to cut/slice the data and test out various hypothesis before building a real backend to

There are a bunch of BI tools that can connect to Athena, we use Tableau to cut/slice the data and test out various hypothesis before building a real backend to utilize the data in new ways. I've found RedShift to be a bit expensive for such use cases as our Tableau users only query for a few hrs/day so keeping a RedShift cluster up and running is way overkill, Athena is a good stopgap.