# AWS Athena
UI Bakery allows you to easily connect to AWS Athena with no need for additional layers like APIs or third-party services.
## Configuration
### Prerequisites
To establish a connection between UI Bakery and AWS Athena, you first need to obtain the authentication credentials for the IAM user associated with your Athena service - specifically *Access key ID* and *Secret access key ID*.
### Connecting the data source
Once you've obtained the necessary credentials, you can proceed to configuring AWS Athena as your data source. Follow the steps below:
1. On the **Data sources** page, click **Connect**, and select *AWS Athena* in the Data sources list.
2. Specify all the necessary credentials:
* S3 output location
* AWS region
* Access key ID
* Secret access key ID
* Role to assume
3. Click **Test connection** to check whether the data source can be connected, and then click **Connect Datasource** to complete the setup.
## Usage
Once you have established the connection between UI Bakery and AWS Athena, you can start interacting with its data.
To manage data from AWS Athena, you can use the [SQL Query](/reference/working-with-actions/sql-query.md) action step.
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