Athena is a bad tool that if you have too much data or your queries take too long will just error out and give you empty results, and charge you for the privile

Athena is a bad tool that if you have too much data or your queries take too long will just error out and give you empty results, and charge you for the privilege. It's cheaper and less pain to host your own Presto if you need it. How much is too much data? It depends. On things you won't be told. Varies day to day. Totally random.