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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-08-28 · Documentation low

File: athena/latest/ug/lf-athena-limitations-cross-account.md

Summary

Removed detailed JSON policy example for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalog sharing

Security assessment

The change removes a specific IAM policy example but does not indicate a security vulnerability fix. While cross-account access policies are security-sensitive, the removal of an example does not directly address a security issue or add new security documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/lf-athena-limitations-cross-account.md b/athena/latest/ug/lf-athena-limitations-cross-account.md
index b15884e52..cd4f0f953 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/lf-athena-limitations-cross-account.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/lf-athena-limitations-cross-account.md
@@ -15,39 +15 @@ You can use Athena's cross-account AWS Glue catalog feature to register the cata
-If the Data Catalog to be shared has a resource policy configured in AWS Glue, it must be updated to allow access to the AWS Resource Access Manager and grant permissions to Account B to use Account A's Data Catalog, as in the following example. 
-
-JSON
-    
-
-****
-    
-    
-    
-    {
-        "Version": "2012-10-17",
-        "Statement": [
-            {
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Principal": {
-                    "Service": "ram.amazonaws.com"
-                },
-                "Action": "glue:ShareResource",
-                "Resource": [
-                "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:table/*/*",
-        "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:database/*",
-        "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:catalog"
-                ]
-            },
-            {
-                "Effect": "Allow",
-                "Principal": {
-                "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::444455556666:root"
-                },
-                "Action": "glue:*",
-                "Resource": [
-                "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:table/*/*",
-        "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:database/*",
-        "arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:111122223333:catalog"
-                ]
-            }
-        ]
-    }
-    
+If the Data Catalog to be shared has a resource policy configured in AWS Glue, it must be updated to allow access to the AWS Resource Access Manager and grant permissions to Account B to use Account A's Data Catalog.