Comment by RobGoretsky

I'd argue that AWS's more directly comparable service to BQ is Athena.. Athena is AWS's managed Presto service, but it's positioned as 'serverless' as you don't need to plan capacity in advance, and very 'coincidentally' priced at the exact same $5/TB that BQ is priced at. Has anyone compared Athena vs BQ performance? I work at an AWS shop so we've been kicking the tires with Athena and thus far are pretty impressed, but I do wonder if the exact same workload would perform better on BQ, which has been around much longer and is truly built from scratch for running as a 'serverless' scalable query engine.