Security and Authentication

To protect data from unauthorized access, Athena requires all connections to be authenticated using IAM credentials (an access key and a secret key), and uses the SSL protocol that is implemented in Amazon Web Services. The Simba Athena ODBC Driver protects your data by providing support for these authentication protocols and further obscuring data from unwanted access by providing encryption options for your query results.

The connector can authenticate your connection using IAM credentials from any of the following sources:

A default credentials provider chain
An IAM profile
An instance profile
The DSN or connection string settings
The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) credentials provider
Okta service credentials provider

For detailed configuration instructions, see Configuring AuthenticationConfiguring Authentication.

Additionally, the connector automatically applies SSL encryption to all connections. SSL encryption protects data and credentials when they are transferred over the network, and provides stronger security than authentication alone.

For query results, the Simba Athena ODBC Driver supports all the encryption options that Athena supports. For detailed information about the supported encryption options, see "Configuring Encryption Options" in the Amazon Athena User Guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/encryption.html. For information about configuring encryption in the connector, see Creating a Data Source NameConfiguring Query Result Encryption.