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Release date: 2025-07-16

GA release of Grafana Assume Role for CloudWatch and Athena

Grafana Assume Role is now Generally Available (GA) for CloudWatch and Athena data sources! Grafana Assume Role allows you to authenticate with AWS without having to create and maintain long-term AWS users or rotate their access and secret keys. Instead, you can create an IAM role that has permissions to access CloudWatch or Athena and a trust relationship with Grafana’s AWS account. Grafana’s AWS account then makes an STS request to AWS to create temporary credentials to access your AWS data. More information can be found in the AWS authentication docs.


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