# Trino delivers for Amazon Athena

DevFeed: [Trino delivers for Amazon Athena](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/trino-delivers-for-amazon-athena-8696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://trino.io/blog/2022/12/01/athena.html>)

Author: Manfred Moser, Martin Traverso

Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Trino Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trino-blog.md>)

Topics: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Amazon Athena has upgraded its query engine from an older version to a recent version of Trino. The article highlights newly available SQL functions, query features, performance improvements, and supporting client-tool improvements.

## Source excerpt

Our community just keeps growing! Today, it is time to reach out and welcome another large group of Trino users. The release of the new engine version for Amazon Athena upgrades Athena to a recent version of Trino from a rather old version. This update brings a ton of improvements from the Trino project to the users of the popular cloud-based query service.