# Connect to Amazon Athena with ODBC
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Amazon Athena offers two ODBC drivers, versions 1.x and 2.x. The Athena ODBC 2.x driver is a new alternative that supports Linux, macOS ARM, macOS Intel, and Windows 64-bit systems. The Athena 2.x driver supports all authentication plugins that the 1.x ODBC driver supports, and almost all connection parameters are backward-compatible.
+ To download the ODBC 2.x driver, see [Amazon Athena ODBC 2.x](odbc-v2-driver.md). 
+ To download the ODBC 1.x driver, see [Athena ODBC 1.x driver](connect-with-odbc-driver-and-documentation-download-links.md).

**Topics**
+ [Amazon Athena ODBC 2.x](odbc-v2-driver.md)
+ [Athena ODBC 1.x driver](connect-with-odbc-driver-and-documentation-download-links.md)
+ [Use the Amazon Athena Power BI connector](connect-with-odbc-and-power-bi.md)