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AWS systems-manager documentation change

Service: systems-manager · 2025-03-10 · Documentation low

File: systems-manager/latest/userguide/verify-agent-signature.md

Summary

Changed 'installed' to 'downloaded' in SSM Agent verification instructions

Security assessment

Clarifies verification procedure for agent signatures. Part of security documentation but doesn't address a vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/systems-manager/latest/userguide/verify-agent-signature.md
index b658b7a82..c5cb056fd 100644
--- a/systems-manager/latest/userguide/verify-agent-signature.md
+++ b/systems-manager/latest/userguide/verify-agent-signature.md
@@ -27 +27 @@ ARM64 |  Amazon Linux 1, Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2023, CentOS, RHEL |  `htt
-The procedures for **GPG** and **RPM** in this section apply to SSM Agent version 3.3.1802.0 and later. Before verifying the signature of SSM Agent using the following procedure, ensure that you have installed the latest agent package for your operating system. For example, `https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm`. For more information about downloading SSM Agent packages, see [Manually installing and uninstalling SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Linux](./manually-install-ssm-agent-linux.html). 
+The procedures for **GPG** and **RPM** in this section apply to SSM Agent version 3.3.1802.0 and later. Before verifying the signature of SSM Agent using the following procedure, ensure that you have downloaded the latest agent package for your operating system. For example, `https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm`. For more information about downloading SSM Agent packages, see [Manually installing and uninstalling SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Linux](./manually-install-ssm-agent-linux.html).