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AWS lake-formation documentation change

Service: lake-formation · 2025-04-18 · Documentation low

File: lake-formation/latest/dg/access-control-underlying-data.md

Summary

Added explicit IAM policy example for lakeformation:GetDataAccess permission

Security assessment

Improves security documentation by providing concrete IAM policy example, but does not indicate resolution of a specific security vulnerability

Diff

diff --git a/lake-formation/latest/dg/access-control-underlying-data.md b/lake-formation/latest/dg/access-control-underlying-data.md
index bba89ca2f..2d2d47b57 100644
--- a//lake-formation/latest/dg/access-control-underlying-data.md
+++ b//lake-formation/latest/dg/access-control-underlying-data.md
@@ -70 +70 @@ Avoid registering an Amazon S3 bucket that has **Requester pays** enabled. For b
-For read/write access to underlying data, in addition to Lake Formation permissions, principals also need the following IAM permission:
+For read/write access to underlying data, in addition to Lake Formation permissions, principals also need the `lakeformation:GetDataAccess` IAM permission. With this permission, Lake Formation grants the request for temporary credentials to access the data.
@@ -72 +71,0 @@ For read/write access to underlying data, in addition to Lake Formation permissi
-`lakeformation:GetDataAccess`
@@ -74 +73,12 @@ For read/write access to underlying data, in addition to Lake Formation permissi
-With this permission, Lake Formation grants the request for temporary credentials to access the data.
+    {
+        "Version": "2012-10-17",
+        "Statement": [
+            {
+                "Effect": "Allow",
+                "Action": "lakeformation:GetDataAccess",
+                "Resource": "*"
+            }
+        ]
+    } 
+
+In the above policy, you must set the Resource parameter to '*' (all. Specifying any other resource for this permission is not supported. This configuration ensures that Lake Formation can manage data access across your entire data lake environment efficiently.