Amazon Quick Enables Cross-Account Amazon Athena Data Queries with IAM Role Chaining

Amazon Quick introduced functionality allowing querying of Athena data across AWS accounts using chained IAM roles for fine-grained access control.

By Clara Morgan · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-05-08 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-05-08. Source published: 2026-05-08. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

This new feature permits Amazon Quick users to access Amazon Athena query data stored in different AWS accounts by specifying RunAsRole and ConsumerAccountRoleArn parameters. The method chains IAM roles to perform queries, with the query costs billed to the data-owning account.

Multiple roles per consumer account can be defined to segregate permissions across teams. This cross-account integration facilitates centralized analytics across decentralized data but the briefing provided no independent security or usability evaluations.

Source & further reading

Amazon Quick now supports cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources ↗

Source published 2026-05-08. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.