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AWS athena medium security documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-07-07 · Security-related medium

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

Summary

Updated TPC-DS connector documentation to state it can now be registered with Glue Data Catalog as a federated catalog and supports Lake Formation data access controls

Security assessment

The change adds explicit support for Lake Formation data access controls at multiple levels (catalog, database, table, column, row, tag), which directly relates to security authorization mechanisms. This enables finer-grained security controls where previously unsupported.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/connectors-tpcds.md b/athena/latest/ug/connectors-tpcds.md
index 8701a1271..72f3f6cf3 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/connectors-tpcds.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/connectors-tpcds.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ The Amazon Athena TPC-DS connector enables Amazon Athena to communicate with a s
-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.