Using Athena Linker with specific workgroup

[richard-a-lott]

Just wanted to share some useful infor regarding the use of Athena linker with a specific (not default) athena workgroup.

In my case I have no access to the "default" Athena workgroup, and splink methods were failing when attempting to submit queries. After reviewing the documentation for the awswrangler module - used by splink for submitting athena queries - I discovered a way to configure different workgroup to use:

import awswranger as wr

wr.config.workgroup = 'your-workgroup-here'

Subsequent calls to awswranger should now be done via the specific group.

Hope that's useful to someone!