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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-10-16 · Documentation medium

File: athena/latest/ug/delta-lake-tables.md

Summary

Added documentation about CSE-KMS encryption limitations and updated section link

Security assessment

Documents a security-related limitation (lack of CSE-KMS encrypted Delta Lake table support) but does not address a specific vulnerability. The change informs users about encryption compatibility constraints, which is security-adjacent documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/delta-lake-tables.md b/athena/latest/ug/delta-lake-tables.md
index eb0803341..f09fb4e8c 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/delta-lake-tables.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/delta-lake-tables.md
@@ -27 +27 @@ Delta Lake support in Athena has the following considerations and limitations:
-  * **Limited DDL support** – The following DDL statements are supported: `CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE`, `SHOW COLUMNS`, `SHOW TBLPROPERTIES`, `SHOW PARTITIONS`, `SHOW CREATE TABLE`, and `DESCRIBE`. For information on using the `CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE` statement, see the [Get started](./delta-lake-tables-getting-started.html) section.
+  * **Limited DDL support** – The following DDL statements are supported: `CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE`, `SHOW COLUMNS`, `SHOW TBLPROPERTIES`, `SHOW PARTITIONS`, `SHOW CREATE TABLE`, and `DESCRIBE`. For information on using the `CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE` statement, see the [Get started with Delta Lake tables](./delta-lake-tables-getting-started.html) section.
@@ -36,0 +37,2 @@ For Iceberg and Delta Lake tables, the command produces the error **`Unsupported
+  * Encrypted tables – Athena does not support natively reading CSE-KMS encrypted Delta Lake tables. This includes SELECT statements and DDL statements.
+
@@ -71 +73 @@ To create a Delta Lake table in Athena with a reader version greater than 1, see
-  * [Get started](./delta-lake-tables-getting-started.html)
+  * [Get started with Delta Lake tables](./delta-lake-tables-getting-started.html)