# AWS adds managed usage tables to Amazon Athena

_Published Monday, November 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Amazon Athena now offers system tables that capture query usage and make it searchable without custom data pipelines, AWS announced. Once enabled, usage records become available within minutes of query completion across workgroups.

AWS stores the records in service-managed, read-only Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables, with configurable retention. Platform teams can use SQL to allocate scanned-data costs by workgroup, user or table. Iceberg-compatible engines, including DuckDB and Amazon Redshift, can also query the records. Availability covers regions where both Athena and Amazon S3 Tables operate.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/athena-system-tables/)

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