[stevenmih]

Steven here, I'm Ahana CEO (Managed Service for Presto) and member of Linux Foundation's Presto Foundation Since you asked about an alternative to AWS Athena, we offer a free-forever in-VPC Managed Service for Presto on AWS, which keeps up with the latest Presto releases.

Note: the original Presto continues to run in production at Meta (fmr. Facebook), Uber, and recently ByteDance TikTok data platform talked about running 1M queries a day with tens of thousands of cores. Some reasons to stay with Presto: - Reliability and scalability per above - Cutting edge innovations only in later versions of Presto: multi-level caching (project RaptorX) to boost query performance by 10X+ and table scan improvements (project Aria) to name a few - Only PrestoDB is hosted by Linux Foundation, giving confidence to community users that future releases will remain open.