# AmazonAthenaFullAccess
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**Description**: Provide full access to Amazon Athena and scoped access to the dependencies needed to enable querying, writing results, and data management.

`AmazonAthenaFullAccess` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AmazonAthenaFullAccess` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 30, 2016, 16:46 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:03 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAthenaFullAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v15 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "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" : [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)