Amazon Athena is AWS’s serverless query engine over S3-hosted data, billed per-query. Use this connector to run Athena queries from PlaidCloud workflows — useful for joining S3 data lakes with PlaidCloud project tables. Authentication uses AWS access keys or IAM role assumption.
Amazon Athena documentation.
These fields appear when creating or editing this connection. Required vs optional depends on the authentication options you enable.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
| Name | Text | Display name for this connection. |
| Alias | Text (multi-line) | Optional alias or notes about the connection. |
| Is active | Toggle | Whether the connection is enabled. Disable to pause without deleting. |
| Db read only | Toggle | Restrict the connection to read-only operations. |
| Access type | Select | Read-only, write-only, or read-write access level for this connection. |
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
| Db host | Text | Hostname or IP address of the database server. |
| Db port | Number | Port number for the database connection. |
| Db catalog | Text | Database, catalog, or schema to connect to. |
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
| Db user | Text | Username for database authentication. |
| Use sso | Toggle | Authenticate via single sign-on instead of username/password. |
| Db password | Password | Password for database authentication. |
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
| Use ssl | Toggle | Encrypt the connection with SSL/TLS. |
| Ssl mode | Select | SSL verification mode (e.g., disable, require, verify-ca, verify-full). |
| Ssl auth client cert | Text (multi-line) | Client certificate (PEM) for mutual TLS authentication. |
| Ssl auth client key | Text (multi-line) | Client private key (PEM) for mutual TLS authentication. |
| Ssl auth root cert | Text (multi-line) | Root CA certificate (PEM) for verifying the server’s cert. |
| Ssl auth cert revoke | Text (multi-line) | Certificate revocation list, if your environment uses one. |
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|
| Use ssh | Toggle | Tunnel the connection through an SSH bastion. |
| Ssh host | Text | SSH bastion hostname. |
| Ssh port | Number | SSH bastion port (default 22). |
| Ssh user | Text | SSH bastion username. |
| Ssh password | Password | SSH bastion password (if password auth is used). |
| Use ssh cert | Toggle | Authenticate to the SSH bastion with a private key instead of password. |
| Ssh private key | Text (multi-line) | SSH private key (PEM) for bastion authentication. |
| Ssh host key | Text (multi-line) | Expected SSH host key for bastion fingerprint verification. |
