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# Introduction to e6 Query Engine

## What is e6 Query Engine?

e6 Query Engine is a lakehouse compute engine for data teams who need fast, cost-efficient analytics directly on their data lake. It runs SQL and AI workloads against your existing storage - S3, ADLS Gen2, or Iceberg-managed data - without copying data into a separate warehouse.

It is designed for the three things that make modern analytics hard:

* **High concurrency** - many users running many queries at the same time.
* **Complex SQL** - joins, window functions, and aggregations over large fact tables.
* **Cost discipline** - paying for what you actually use, not for idle infrastructure.

## How customers use e6 Query Engine

* **BI dashboards** at the scale of thousands of concurrent users, with sub-second query times.
* **Operational analytics** for product, ops, and revenue teams that need fresh answers, not warehouse refresh cycles.
* **Ad-hoc exploration** on data lakes too large to load into a traditional warehouse.
* **AI/ML feature pipelines** running close to the data.

## Getting Started

Everything you need to start querying with e6data - from understanding the platform to running your first query.

[**Architecture**](/query-engine/get-started/architecture.md) - Understand e6data's query engine architecture, key constructs, and supported deployment models.

[**Identity and access setup**](/query-engine/get-started/identity-access-setup/sign-up-and-login.md) - Sign up, log in, set up your organization, and invite your team.

[**Deployment models**](/query-engine/get-started/deployment-models.md) **-** Two ways to run e6 Query Engine, both keeping your data in your cloud:

* **Serverless** - e6 Query Engine manages the compute infrastructure. Fastest to get started.
* **In Your VPC** - compute runs inside your own Kubernetes cluster. Useful when network isolation is a hard requirement.

[**Quickstart**](/query-engine/get-started/quickstart.md) - your first end-to-end query, or jump straight to [Deployment](/query-engine/guides/deployment/aws-serverless.md) for your cloud.

## Where to ask questions

* FAQs for your deployment path: [AWS Serverless](/query-engine/guides/deployment/aws-serverless/faqs.md), [AWS In-VPC / CloudPrem](/query-engine/guides/deployment/aws-in-vpc/faqs.md), or [Azure Serverless](/query-engine/guides/deployment/azure-serverless/faqs.md).
* Contact your e6data CSM or support engineer for setup-specific questions.


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