Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Default credentials

You can use the default credentials that you configure on your client system to connect to Amazon Athena by setting the following connection parameters. For information about using default credentials, see Using the Default Credential Provider Chain in the Amazon SDK for Java Developer Guide.

Credentials provider

The credentials provider that will be used to authenticate requests to Amazon. Set the value of this parameter to DefaultChain.