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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-07-07 · Documentation medium

File: athena/latest/ug/connectors-azure-synapse.md

Summary

Updated connector capabilities to support Glue Data Catalog registration and Lake Formation access controls

Security assessment

Same security documentation improvement as ADLS Gen2 connector - enables Lake Formation controls but doesn't fix a vulnerability. Enhances security posture documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/connectors-azure-synapse.md b/athena/latest/ug/connectors-azure-synapse.md
index 9e0e110e0..c69f67c0e 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/connectors-azure-synapse.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/connectors-azure-synapse.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ The Amazon Athena connector for [Azure Synapse analytics](https://docs.microsoft
-This connector can not be registered with Glue Data Catalog as a federated catalog. This connector does not support data access controls defined in Lake Formation at the catalog, database, table, column, row, and tag levels. This connector uses Glue Connections to centralize configuration properties in Glue.
+This connector can be registered with Glue Data Catalog as a federated catalog. It supports data access controls defined in Lake Formation at the catalog, database, table, column, row, and tag levels. This connector uses Glue Connections to centralize configuration properties in Glue.