Using Regular Expressions and Athena to Query Data

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Using Regular Expressions and Athena to Query Data

Regular expressions can pair with a number of powerful tools, including Amazon Athena, which lets us query our database content. In this hands-on lab, we need to leverage regular expression, capturing groups to extract our desired log information from an AWS Glue database.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

15m

Challenge

Create Query

Create a query in Athena to retrieve the IP, method, URL, and status code for the logs in the weblogs table.
Challenge

Run Query

Run the query and review the results.

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