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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-08-16 · Documentation low

File: athena/latest/ug/managed-policies.md

Summary

Replaced inline JSON policy definitions with links to AWS Managed Policy Reference documentation

Security assessment

The change removes verbose policy JSONs and directs users to official policy references, but does not introduce or modify security controls. This is a documentation maintenance change without security implications.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/managed-policies.md b/athena/latest/ug/managed-policies.md
index 0eca09394..cddec3260 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/managed-policies.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/managed-policies.md
@@ -82,153 +82 @@ The `AmazonAthenaFullAccess` policy is grouped into the following sets of permis
-JSON
-    
-
-****
-    
-    
-    
-    {
-        "Version": "2012-10-17",
-        "Statement": [{
-                "Sid": "BaseAthenaPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "athena:*"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseGluePermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "glue:CreateDatabase",
-                    "glue:DeleteDatabase",
-                    "glue:GetCatalog",
-                    "glue:GetCatalogs",
-                    "glue:GetDatabase",
-                    "glue:GetDatabases",
-                    "glue:UpdateDatabase",
-                    "glue:CreateTable",
-                    "glue:DeleteTable",
-                    "glue:BatchDeleteTable",
-                    "glue:UpdateTable",
-                    "glue:GetTable",
-                    "glue:GetTables",
-                    "glue:BatchCreatePartition",
-                    "glue:CreatePartition",
-                    "glue:DeletePartition",
-                    "glue:BatchDeletePartition",
-                    "glue:UpdatePartition",
-                    "glue:GetPartition",
-                    "glue:GetPartitions",
-                    "glue:BatchGetPartition",
-                    "glue:StartColumnStatisticsTaskRun",
-                    "glue:GetColumnStatisticsTaskRun",
-                    "glue:GetColumnStatisticsTaskRuns",
-                    "glue:GetCatalogImportStatus"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseQueryResultsPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "s3:GetBucketLocation",
-                    "s3:GetObject",
-                    "s3:ListBucket",
-                    "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
-                    "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
-                    "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
-                    "s3:CreateBucket",
-                    "s3:PutObject",
-                    "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "arn:aws:s3:::aws-athena-query-results-*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseAthenaExamplesPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "s3:GetObject",
-                    "s3:ListBucket"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "arn:aws:s3:::athena-examples*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseS3BucketPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "s3:ListBucket",
-                    "s3:GetBucketLocation",
-                    "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseSNSPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "sns:ListTopics",
-                    "sns:GetTopicAttributes"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseCloudWatchPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
-                    "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
-                    "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
-                    "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseLakeFormationPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "lakeformation:GetDataAccess"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BaseDataZonePermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "datazone:ListDomains",
-                    "datazone:ListProjects",
-                    "datazone:ListAccountEnvironments"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Sid": "BasePricingPermissions",
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "pricing:GetProducts"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [
-                    "*"
-                ]
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-    
+To view the permissions for this policy, see [AmazonAthenaFullAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/AmazonAthenaFullAccess.html) in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.
@@ -259,101 +107 @@ The `AWSQuicksightAthenaAccess` policy is grouped into the following sets of per
-JSON
-    
-
-****
-    
-    
-    
-    {
-        "Version": "2012-10-17",
-        "Statement": [{
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Action": [
-                    "athena:BatchGetQueryExecution",
-                    "athena:CancelQueryExecution",
-                    "athena:GetCatalogs",
-                    "athena:GetExecutionEngine",
-                    "athena:GetExecutionEngines",
-                    "athena:GetNamespace",
-                    "athena:GetNamespaces",
-                    "athena:GetQueryExecution",
-                    "athena:GetQueryExecutions",
-                    "athena:GetQueryResults",
-                    "athena:GetQueryResultsStream",
-                    "athena:GetTable",
-                    "athena:GetTables",
-                    "athena:ListQueryExecutions",
-                    "athena:RunQuery",
-                    "athena:StartQueryExecution",
-                    "athena:StopQueryExecution",
-                    "athena:ListWorkGroups",
-                    "athena:ListEngineVersions",
-                    "athena:GetWorkGroup",
-                    "athena:GetDataCatalog",
-                    "athena:GetDatabase",
-                    "athena:GetTableMetadata",
-                    "athena:ListDataCatalogs",
-                    "athena:ListDatabases",
-                    "athena:ListTableMetadata"
-                ],
-                "Resource": [