AWS athena medium security documentation change

Service: athena · 2026-06-04 · Security-related medium

File: athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-common-authentication-parameters.md

Summary

Replaced 'Ping' authentication reference with 'SageMaker IAM'

Security assessment

This updates authentication parameter documentation to reflect new SageMaker IAM method, which provides more secure IAM-based authentication compared to generic options.

Diff

diff --git a/athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-common-authentication-parameters.md b/athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-common-authentication-parameters.md
index c57b56c76..80af58836 100644
--- a//athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-common-authentication-parameters.md
+++ b//athena/latest/ug/odbc-v2-driver-common-authentication-parameters.md
@@ -70 +70 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Ping
+SageMaker IAM