AmazonAthenaFullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:27 PM UTC

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v15

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Created

Feb 12, 2026

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The same capabilities in a scoped form, resource policy writes, reads across all data, or full access to a whole service. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

Medium
Full athena access on every resource
Uses athena:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
athena:*
Use with caution: The grant grows every time the service does. For long-lived access, prefer a policy that lists the actions you actually need.

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153{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "BaseAthenaPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "athena:*"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseGluePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "glue:CreateDatabase",
            "glue:DeleteDatabase",
            "glue:GetCatalog",
            "glue:GetCatalogs",
            "glue:GetDatabase",
            "glue:GetDatabases",
            "glue:UpdateDatabase",
            "glue:CreateTable",
            "glue:DeleteTable",
            "glue:BatchDeleteTable",
            "glue:UpdateTable",
            "glue:GetTable",
            "glue:GetTables",
            "glue:BatchCreatePartition",
            "glue:CreatePartition",
            "glue:DeletePartition",
            "glue:BatchDeletePartition",
            "glue:UpdatePartition",
            "glue:GetPartition",
            "glue:GetPartitions",
            "glue:BatchGetPartition",
            "glue:StartColumnStatisticsTaskRun",
            "glue:GetColumnStatisticsTaskRun",
            "glue:GetColumnStatisticsTaskRuns",
            "glue:GetCatalogImportStatus"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseQueryResultsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "s3:GetObject",
            "s3:ListBucket",
            "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
            "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
            "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
            "s3:CreateBucket",
            "s3:PutObject",
            "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::aws-athena-query-results-*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseAthenaExamplesPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:GetObject",
            "s3:ListBucket"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::athena-examples*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseS3BucketPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:ListBucket",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseSNSPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "sns:GetTopicAttributes"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseCloudWatchPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
            "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
            "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseLakeFormationPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lakeformation:GetDataAccess"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BaseDataZonePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "datazone:ListDomains",
            "datazone:ListProjects",
            "datazone:ListAccountEnvironments"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "BasePricingPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "pricing:GetProducts"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v15",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T18:03:09+00:00"
  }
}