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If you’re trying to connect Amazon Athena to Power BI on a Windows ARM64 device like a Surface, you might run into a common issue caused by compatibility problems with the drivers. The problem usually shows up as error code 193, which means your system is trying to load a driver made for a different architecture, such as x64, on your ARM64 machine.
Right now, Amazon offers ODBC drivers for Athena in versions 1.x and 2.x. However, neither of these versions explicitly list support for Windows ARM64. The Athena ODBC 2.x driver supports Linux, macOS ARM, macOS Intel, and 64-bit Windows, but unfortunately, Windows ARM64 isn’t included.
Since there’s no native Windows ARM64 version available at this time, you’ll need to explore some workarounds:
- If your device supports it, try running the Windows x64 version of the driver through emulation. Keep in mind, this might slow things down a bit.
- Consider connecting using a different client that doesn’t rely on the ODBC driver directly, if possible.
- Alternatively, see if you can set up JDBC connectivity instead, which might be more compatible with your setup.
Until Amazon releases a dedicated Windows ARM64 driver, connecting directly from Power BI on your ARM device will be tricky. Keep an eye on updates from Amazon, as support may improve in the future.
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