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AWS lake-formation documentation change

Service: lake-formation · 2025-10-16 · Documentation low

File: lake-formation/latest/dg/notes-ns-catalog.md

Summary

Clarified cross-account sharing limitations for federated catalogs and added support for sharing individual databases/tables across accounts.

Security assessment

This clarifies existing permissions behavior but does not address a security vulnerability or introduce new security features. It improves documentation accuracy for cross-account sharing workflows.

Diff

diff --git a/lake-formation/latest/dg/notes-ns-catalog.md b/lake-formation/latest/dg/notes-ns-catalog.md
index 91c4886a5..f1ca95447 100644
--- a//lake-formation/latest/dg/notes-ns-catalog.md
+++ b//lake-formation/latest/dg/notes-ns-catalog.md
@@ -9 +9 @@ You can catalog, and manage access to analytic data in Amazon Redshift data ware
-  * Granting Lake Formation permissions on federated catalogs across different AWS accounts is not supported. 
+  * Cross-account sharing is not supported at the federated catalog level. However, you can share individual databases and tables from within a federated catalog across AWS accounts.