AWS athena documentation change
Summary
Added release note for April 21, 2026 about new managed connectors for 12 data sources including DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake
Security assessment
The change mentions that these managed connectors support fine-grained access controls through AWS Lake Formation, which is a security feature. However, this is a feature announcement rather than addressing a security issue.
Diff
diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/release-notes.md b/athena/latest/ug/release-notes.md index 6fb6b645d..806aaef06 100644 --- a//athena/latest/ug/release-notes.md +++ b//athena/latest/ug/release-notes.md @@ -39,0 +40,6 @@ Describes Amazon Athena features, improvements, and bug fixes by release date. +### April 21, 2026 + +Published on 2026-04-21 + +Amazon Athena now offers managed connectors for 12 data sources, including Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake. Managed connectors are AWS Glue Data Catalog federated connectors that Athena creates and manages on your behalf, so you can query data outside Amazon S3 without deploying or maintaining connector resources in your AWS account. These connectors are registered as federated catalogs in AWS Glue Data Catalog, and you can optionally set up fine-grained access controls through AWS Lake Formation. For more information, see [Use Amazon Athena Federated Query](./federated-queries.html). +