AWS lake-formation documentation change
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.