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AWS kms documentation change

Service: kms · 2025-07-04 · Documentation low

File: kms/latest/developerguide/alias-create.md

Summary

Fixed documentation links for 'customer managed key' concept references

Security assessment

The change corrects typos in internal hyperlinks (e.g., 'customer-cmk' to 'customer-mgn-key'). No security impact, as it's a documentation formatting fix.

Diff

diff --git a/kms/latest/developerguide/alias-create.md b/kms/latest/developerguide/alias-create.md
index ad3138da7..7c5938165 100644
--- a//kms/latest/developerguide/alias-create.md
+++ b//kms/latest/developerguide/alias-create.md
@@ -9 +9 @@ You can create aliases in the AWS KMS console or by using AWS KMS API operations
-The alias must be string of 1–256 characters. It can contain only alphanumeric characters, forward slashes (/), underscores (_), and dashes (-). The alias name for a [customer managed key](./concepts.html#customer-cmk) cannot begin with `alias/aws/`. The `alias/aws/` prefix is reserved for [AWS managed key](./concepts.html#aws-managed-cmk).
+The alias must be string of 1–256 characters. It can contain only alphanumeric characters, forward slashes (/), underscores (_), and dashes (-). The alias name for a [customer managed key](./concepts.html#customer-mgn-key) cannot begin with `alias/aws/`. The `alias/aws/` prefix is reserved for [AWS managed key](./concepts.html#aws-managed-key).
@@ -50 +50 @@ In the AWS KMS API operations, the alias name must begin with `alias/` followed
-The `TargetKeyId` can be any [customer managed key](./concepts.html#customer-cmk) in the same AWS Region. To identify the KMS key, use its [key ID](./concepts.html#key-id-key-id) or [key ARN](./concepts.html#key-id-key-ARN). You cannot use another alias.
+The `TargetKeyId` can be any [customer managed key](./concepts.html#customer-mgn-key) in the same AWS Region. To identify the KMS key, use its [key ID](./concepts.html#key-id-key-id) or [key ARN](./concepts.html#key-id-key-ARN). You cannot use another alias.