# Amazon Athena Integration: Dashboards and AI Analytics | Silicon

URL: https://meetsilicon.com/integrations/athena/

> Connect Silicon to Amazon Athena and query it live through your semantic layer. Query data in S3 through Athena.

Integrations / Amazon Athena
# Silicon + Amazon Athena
Connect Silicon to Amazon Athena and query it live through your semantic layer. Query data in S3 through Athena.
Available on: All plans
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Features
## What you can do
- Dashboards, scheduled reports and alerts on Amazon Athena data
- AI analyst answers that run as governed SQL against Amazon Athena
- Schema checks that compare pull requests with your live warehouse
- Row- and column-level permissions applied to every query
Set-up
## Connect Amazon Athena
- Create a user or service account in Amazon Athena with read access to the schemas your dbt models build into.
- Add the Amazon Athena connection details in your Silicon project settings.
- Connect your dbt project, or define metrics in Silicon YAML, so Silicon knows your models and metrics.
- Build dashboards, ask the AI analyst or schedule reports. Queries run live in Amazon Athena.
Detailed instructions for connecting Amazon Athena are in the Silicon docs. Questions about your setup? Talk to Sujay.
FAQ
## Amazon Athena questions
### Does Silicon copy my data out of Amazon Athena? +
Silicon queries Amazon Athena live through your semantic layer, so the data stays in your Amazon Athena account.
### What access does Silicon need in Amazon Athena? +
Read access to the schemas and tables your dashboards and metrics use. Silicon does not need write access to your data.
### Do we need dbt? +
It helps, because Silicon reads your models and descriptions from it. Metrics can also be defined in Silicon YAML without a dbt project.
### Which Silicon plans include Amazon Athena? +
All plans. See the pricing page for what each plan includes.
## More warehouses integrations
- Snowflake ->
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- Databricks ->
- Amazon Redshift ->
- All integrations ->
## Tell us where your data lives today.
Book 30 minutes with the founder. Tell us where your data is today, and see Silicon running on sample data.
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