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AWS athena documentation change

Service: athena · 2026-04-25 · Documentation low

File: athena/latest/ug/register-connection-as-gdc.md

Summary

Updated documentation about registering connections as Glue Data Catalog, added note about Lambda-less connectors, reorganized and expanded connector list

Security assessment

The change adds clarification about fine-grained access control with Lake Formation for federated connectors, which is a security feature. However, there's no evidence of addressing a specific security vulnerability - this appears to be routine documentation improvement about security capabilities.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/register-connection-as-gdc.md b/athena/latest/ug/register-connection-as-gdc.md
index 849484533..24a95f474 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/register-connection-as-gdc.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/register-connection-as-gdc.md
@@ -11,3 +11 @@ PrerequisitesRegister your connection using console
-After you create your data source, you can use the Athena console to register your connection as a Glue Data Catalog. Once registered, you can manage your federated data catalog and enable fine-grained access control using Lake Formation. For more information, see [Creating a federated catalog](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/create-fed-catalog-data-source.html).
-
-You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-grained access control.
+###### Note
@@ -15,3 +13 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * Redshift
-
-  * BigQuery
+**AWS Glue Data Catalog federated connectors without Lambda** are already registered as a Glue Data Catalog and work with fine-grained access control and can ignore this section. See [Connector type support by data source](./federated-queries.html#federated-queries-connector-support) for a list of connectors.
@@ -19,5 +15 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * DynamoDB (Preview)
-
-  * Snowflake (Preview)
-
-  * MySQL
+After you create your data source, you can use the Athena console to register your connection as a Glue Data Catalog. Once registered, you can manage your federated data catalog and enable fine-grained access control using Lake Formation. For more information, see [Creating a federated catalog](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/create-fed-catalog-data-source.html).
@@ -25 +17 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * PostgreSQL
+You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-grained access control.
@@ -39,2 +30,0 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * DocumentDB
-
@@ -44,0 +35,18 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
+  * TPC-DS
+
+  * Cloudera Hive
+
+  * Cloudwatch
+
+  * Cloudwatch Metrics
+
+  * Vertica
+
+  * BigQuery
+
+  * DocumentDB
+
+  * DynamoDB
+
+  * MySQL
+
@@ -49,3 +57 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * SAP HANA
-
-  * SQL Server
+  * PostgreSQL
@@ -53 +59 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * TPC-DS
+  * Redshift
@@ -55 +61 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * Cloudera Hive
+  * SAP HANA
@@ -57 +63 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * Cloudwatch
+  * Snowflake
@@ -59 +65 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * Cloudwatch Metrics
+  * SQL Server
@@ -63,2 +68,0 @@ You can register the following connectors to integrate with AWS Glue for fine-gr
-  * Vertica
-