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AWS athena documentation change

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

File: athena/latest/ug/connectors-docdb.md

Summary

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

Security assessment

Consistent with other Athena connector updates - adds documentation about Lake Formation security controls without addressing a specific security incident.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/connectors-docdb.md b/athena/latest/ug/connectors-docdb.md
index 74c59c4ca..e35b4797f 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/connectors-docdb.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/connectors-docdb.md
@@ -21 +21 @@ If you have Lake Formation enabled in your account, the IAM role for your Athena
-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.