Amazon Athena 支援 ODBC 了 (先前直接連結只支援 JDBC)：「Amazon Athena adds support for querying data using an ODBC driver」。
With the availability of a new ODBC driver, you can now connect popular business intelligence tools to Athena. This allows you to report and visualize all of your data in S3 with the tools of your choice. In addition to the ODBC driver, Customers can now connect to Amazon Athena using a JDBC driver, an API and via the AWS Console.
這讓非 Java 的程式語言可以更方便的接上去了，像是 PHP 的 PDO 支援 ODBC 但不支援 JDBC，要用就得想其他辦法：「PHP: PDO Drivers - Manual」。