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title: "Configure Amazon Athena for Kompass onboarding"
slug: "configure-amazon-athena-for-kompass"
updated: 2026-08-17T13:51:13Z
published: 2026-08-17T13:51:13Z
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# Configure Amazon Athena for Kompass onboarding

This topic describes how to set up Athena for onboarding with Kompass. Kompass queries Athena for required data.

**Prerequisites**:

Details of the **crawler-cfn.yml** file from the CUR S3 bucket, either the path to **crawler-cfn.yml** or the actual downloaded file.

> [!NOTE]
> AWS timing
> 
> AWS makes this information available **only 24 hours after creating a new CUR** (or editing an existing one) with Amazon Athena integration.

Example: **s3://<your-bucket>/cloudformation/crawler-cfn.yml**

#### To configure Athena:

1. Use AWS to create the CloudFormation stack:
  1. From the AWS Management Console, open **CloudFormation**.
  2. Choose **Create Stack > With new resources (standard)**.
  3. In the **Specify template** section, do one of the following:
    - Select **Amazon S3 URL**, and paste the URL to your **crawler-cfn.yml file**, for example: **https://<your-bucket>.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation/crawler-cfn**
    - Select **Upload a template file**, and upload the actual file from the S3 CUR bucket to use as a template.
  4. Click **Next**.
  5. Enter a name for the stack.

We recommend a name like Zesty-CUR-Athena-Setup.
  6. Click **Next**.
  7. In the **Configure stack options** screen, review and acknowledge the IAM role capabilities, then click **Next**.
  8. In the **Review and create** screen, click **Submit**.

A database will be created, with a name similar to athenacurcfn.

Leave this tab open. You will need it for a future step.
2. Set up a new S3 bucket for the Athena query results:
  1. From AWS, open a new tab to the S3 Management Console.
  2. Create the bucket:
    1. Click **Create bucket**.

The Create Bucket page is displayed.
    2. Use the same region used for the CUR bucket and enter a name like **<account-id>-aws-athena-query-results-<region>**
    3. Click **Create bucket**.
3. Configure Athena:
  1. From AWS, open the Amazon Athena dashboard.
  2. Select **Query editor**.
  3. In the **Data** section, select the database with the name of the S3 bucket created in the previous step.
  4. Choose **Settings > Manage**.

The Manage settings window is displayed.
  5. Click **Browse**, select the relevant data set, then click **Choose**.

The location of the query result displayed is the S3 bucket you just created. It should look like this: **s3://<account-id>-aws-athena-query-results-<region>**
  6. Click **Save**.

Athena is configured for integration with Kompass.