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AWS prescriptive-guidance medium security documentation change

Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2025-04-23 · Security-related medium

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/optimize-costs-microsoft-workloads/sql-server-editions.md

Summary

Corrected Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) support status for SQL Server Web edition from 'Yes' to 'No' in feature comparison table

Security assessment

This change addresses a security documentation error by clarifying that TDE (a critical data-at-rest encryption feature) is not available in Web edition. Incorrectly listing TDE as supported could have led to insecure deployments where users assume encryption exists when it does not, creating data exposure risks.

Diff

diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/optimize-costs-microsoft-workloads/sql-server-editions.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/optimize-costs-microsoft-workloads/sql-server-editions.md
index c141574f7..9df831d1b 100644
--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/optimize-costs-microsoft-workloads/sql-server-editions.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/optimize-costs-microsoft-workloads/sql-server-editions.md
@@ -124 +124 @@ Feature | Enterprise edition | Standard edition | Web edition | Express edition
-(Security) Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No  
+(Security) Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) | Yes | Yes | No | No