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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2025-11-22 · Documentation medium

File: athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-jwt-tip.md

Summary

Changed default session duration from 900 to 3600 seconds and replaced 'Okta' with 'Browser trusted identity propagation'

Security assessment

The change introduces documentation for browser-based trusted identity propagation, which appears to be a new security-related authentication method. However, there's no explicit mention of addressing a specific vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-jwt-tip.md b/athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-jwt-tip.md
index 1a6d1576b..50917d544 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-jwt-tip.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-jwt-tip.md
@@ -57 +57 @@ The duration, in seconds, of the role session. For more information about sessio
-duration | Optional | `900` | `duration=900;`  
+duration | Optional | `3600` | `duration=900;`  
@@ -91 +91 @@ JWT
-Okta
+Browser trusted identity propagation