The recently released Athena data source plugin for Grafana, developed by Grafana's R&D team in collaboration with AWS, allows users to seamlessly query and visualize Amazon S3 data using Athena within Grafana's versatile dashboard environment. Athena is a serverless query service that enables users to analyze data stored in S3 using SQL, with support for multiple data formats and integration with AWS Glue Data Catalog for enhanced metadata management. The plugin facilitates dynamic querying through macros and template variables, and provides features such as curated dashboards, annotations, and alerting capabilities, making it easier to monitor and manage AWS Cost Usage Reports (CUR) and other datasets. Users can leverage the plugin's functionalities to create comprehensive visualizations and alerts within Grafana, enhancing their data analysis and monitoring capabilities.