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AWS pcs documentation change

Service: pcs · 2025-07-04 · Documentation medium

File: pcs/latest/userguide/doc-history.md

Summary

Added entries for July 3, 2025 (region expansion), July 1, 2025 (console improvements), and June 23, 2025 (new managed policy).

Security assessment

The June 23 entry introduces documentation for the AWSPCSComputeNodePolicy, a security feature granting compute node permissions. However, there is no evidence of addressing a specific security vulnerability.

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diff --git a/pcs/latest/userguide/doc-history.md b/pcs/latest/userguide/doc-history.md
index 506f22967..74d1ac8cb 100644
--- a//pcs/latest/userguide/doc-history.md
+++ b//pcs/latest/userguide/doc-history.md
@@ -10,0 +11,9 @@ Date | Change | Documentation updates | API versions updated
+July 3, 2025 | AWS PCS released in Europe (London) |  AWS PCS is now available in Europe (London) (eu-west-2). CloudFormation templates are available to get started in the Europe (London) AWS Region. For more information, see [Use AWS CloudFormation to create a sample AWS PCS cluster](./get-started-cfn-create.html) and [AWS CloudFormation templates to create a sample AWS PCS cluster](./get-started-cfn-sample-templates.html). |  N/A   
+July 1, 2025 | Updated console instructions |  You can now have AWS PCS create a basic instance profile and security group for you when you create a cluster and compute node group in the console. For more information, see:
+
+  * [Creating a cluster in AWS Parallel Computing Service](./working-with_clusters_create.html)
+  * [Creating a compute node group in AWS PCS](./working-with_cng_create.html)
+  * [IAM instance profiles for AWS Parallel Computing Service](./security-instance-profiles.html)
+
+|  N/A   
+June 23, 2025 | New managed policy: AWSPCSComputeNodePolicy |  Added a new managed policy that grants permission to AWS PCS compute nodes to connect to AWS PCS clusters. For more information, see [AWS managed policy: AWSPCSComputeNodePolicy](./security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSPCSComputeNodePolicy). |  N/A   
@@ -13 +22 @@ June 18, 2025 | AWS PCS release in AWS GovCloud (US) |  AWS PCS is now available
-June 18, 2025 | Updated PCS agent |  Updated the AMI topic for AWS PCS agent 1.2.1-1. For more information, see [Software installers to build custom AMIs for AWS PCS](./working-with_ami_installers.html). |  N/A   
+June 18, 2025 | Updated PCS agent |  Updated the AMI topic for AWS PCS agent 1.2.1-1. For more information, see [Software installers to build custom AMIs for AWS PCS](./working-with_ami_installers.html). >>>>>>> public  |  N/A