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AWS connect medium security documentation change

Service: connect · 2025-06-16 · Security-related medium

File: connect/latest/adminguide/plan-live-media-streams.md

Summary

Changed 'grant permissions to people' to 'grant permissions to IAM roles' for Kinesis Video Streams access

Security assessment

Enforces security best practices by specifying IAM roles instead of individual users, reducing risk of excessive permissions and improving credential management.

Diff

diff --git a/connect/latest/adminguide/plan-live-media-streams.md b/connect/latest/adminguide/plan-live-media-streams.md
index 2b62743b7..dd9bf0795 100644
--- a//connect/latest/adminguide/plan-live-media-streams.md
+++ b//connect/latest/adminguide/plan-live-media-streams.md
@@ -39 +39 @@ We recommend that you refrain from modifying the streams. Doing so can cause une
-If your business is using IAM permissions, your AWS admin will need to grant permissions to people who are going to retrieve data from Kinesis Video Streams. They'll need to grant them full access permissions for Kinesis Video Streams and AWS Key Management Service.
+If your business is using IAM permissions, your AWS admin will need to grant permissions to IAM roles which need to retrieve data from Kinesis Video Streams. They will need to grant them full access permissions for Kinesis Video Streams and AWS Key Management Service.