AWS Athena concurrency limits: Number of submitted queries VS number of running queries
问题 According to AWS Athena limitations you can submit up to 20 queries of the same type at a time, but it is a soft limit and can be increased on request. I use boto3 to interact with Athena and my script submits 16 CTAS queries each of which takes about 2 minutes to finish. In a AWS account, it is only me who is using Athena service. However, when I look at the state of queries through console I see that only a few of queries (5 on average) are actually being executed despite all of them being