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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-06-16 · Documentation low

File: athena/latest/ug/key-management.md

Summary

Updated terminology from 'CMKs' to 'customer managed keys' for consistency

Security assessment

Change is a terminology clarification without modifying security practices or addressing vulnerabilities

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/key-management.md b/athena/latest/ug/key-management.md
index 46f7e94c0..09f8351f0 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/key-management.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/key-management.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-Amazon Athena supports AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt datasets in Amazon S3 and Athena query results. AWS KMS uses customer managed keys (CMKs) to encrypt your Amazon S3 objects and relies on [envelope encryption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/concepts.html#enveloping). 
+Amazon Athena supports AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt datasets in Amazon S3 and Athena query results. AWS KMS uses customer managed keys to encrypt your Amazon S3 objects and relies on [envelope encryption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/concepts.html#enveloping). 
@@ -13 +13 @@ In AWS KMS, you can perform the following actions:
-  * [Import your own key material for new CMKs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/importing-keys.html)
+  * [Import your own key material for new customer managed keys](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/importing-keys.html)