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AWS athena documentation change

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

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

Summary

Updated connector documentation to state it can be registered with Glue Data Catalog and supports Lake Formation access controls

Security assessment

Documentation now mentions support for Lake Formation's granular access controls, which is a security feature. No indication this fixes a specific security vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/connectors-hbase.md b/athena/latest/ug/connectors-hbase.md
index 42c64512f..5b8ba6123 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/connectors-hbase.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/connectors-hbase.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.