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AWS elasticloadbalancing high security documentation change

Service: elasticloadbalancing · 2025-04-11 · Security-related high

File: elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/describe-ssl-policies.md

Summary

Updated recommended SSL policy to ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-Res-2021-06, likely addressing a security vulnerability in the previous policy.

Security assessment

The policy name change ('Res' suffix) suggests resolution of a security flaw in the previous TLS configuration, making this a security-related update.

Diff

diff --git a/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/describe-ssl-policies.md b/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/describe-ssl-policies.md
index b373bacda..3d9f0d332 100644
--- a//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/describe-ssl-policies.md
+++ b//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/describe-ssl-policies.md
@@ -23 +23 @@ Elastic Load Balancing uses a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) negotiation configuratio
-    * We recommend the `ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-2021-06` security policy, which includes TLS 1.3, and is backwards compatible with TLS 1.2.
+    * We recommend the `ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-Res-2021-06` security policy, which includes TLS 1.3, and is backwards compatible with TLS 1.2.