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AWS odb medium security documentation change

Service: odb · 2025-07-10 · Security-related medium

File: odb/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.md

Summary

Added requirement to grant IAM principal policy permissions for provisioning Oracle Database@AWS resources

Security assessment

Explicitly mandates IAM permissions as prerequisite, enforcing least privilege access controls for resource provisioning

Diff

diff --git a/odb/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.md b/odb/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.md
index 54215349b..911cd3550 100644
--- a//odb/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.md
+++ b//odb/latest/UserGuide/getting-started.md
@@ -26 +26,8 @@ To create Oracle Exadata databases on your infrastructure, you must use the Orac
-Before configuring your Oracle Exadata infrastructure, make sure that you perform the steps in [Onboarding to Oracle Database@AWS](./setting-up.html). You must have accepted a private offer to use Oracle Database@AWS.
+Before configuring your Oracle Exadata infrastructure, make sure that you do the following:
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+  * Perform the steps in [Onboarding to Oracle Database@AWS](./setting-up.html). You must have accepted a private offer to use Oracle Database@AWS.
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+  * Grant your IAM principal the policy permissions listed in [Allow users to provision Oracle Database@AWS resources](./security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-full-access). These permissions are necessary to use Oracle Database@AWS.
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