Amazon Athena launches single sign-on support for drivers

Amazon Athena announces single sign-on support for its JDBC and ODBC drivers through AWS IAM Identity Center’s trusted identity propagation. This makes it simpler for organizations to manage end-user's access to data when using 3rd party tools and implement identity-based data governance policies with a seamless sign-on experience.

With this new capability, data teams can seamlessly access data through their preferred 3rd party tools using their organizational credentials. When analysts run queries using the updated Athena JDBC (3.6.0) and ODBC (2.0.5.0) drivers, their access permissions defined in Lake Formation are applied and their actions logged. This streamlined workflow eliminates credential management overhead while ensuring consistent security policies, allowing data teams to focus on insights rather than access management. For example, data analysts using 3rd party BI tools or SQL clients can now connect to Athena using their corporate credentials, and their access to data will be restricted based on policies defined for their respective user identity or group membership in Lake Formation.

This feature is available in regions where Amazon Athena and AWS Identity Center's trusted identity propagation are supported. To learn more about configuring identity support when using Athena drivers, see the Amazon Athena driver documentation.