Amazon AWS Athena S3 and Glacier Mixed Bucket

The documentation from AWS dated May 16 2017 states specifically that Athena does not support the GLACIER storage class:

Athena does not support different storage classes within the bucket specified by the LOCATION clause, does not support the GLACIER storage class, and does not support Requester Pays buckets. For more information, see Storage Classes, Changing the Storage Class of an Object in |S3|, and Requester Pays Buckets in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.

We are also interested in this; if you get it to work, please let us know how. :-)


Since the release of February 18, 2019 Athena will ignore objects with the GLACIER storage class instead of failing the query:

[…] As a result of fixing this issue, Athena ignores objects transitioned to the GLACIER storage class. Athena does not support querying data from the GLACIER storage class.