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AWS systems-manager documentation change

Service: systems-manager · 2025-07-16 · Documentation low

File: systems-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started-default-session-document.md

Summary

Updated example ARN patterns by removing account numbers and instance IDs from placeholder values

Security assessment

The change replaces specific example ARNs with generic placeholders. This is a documentation hygiene improvement to avoid exposing example account numbers, but doesn't address a specific security vulnerability or add security features.

Diff

diff --git a/systems-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started-default-session-document.md b/systems-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started-default-session-document.md
index 2f1cef8a1..930addd4c 100644
--- a//systems-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started-default-session-document.md
+++ b//systems-manager/latest/userguide/getting-started-default-session-document.md
@@ -44,0 +45,6 @@ To start a default shell session, you must specify the default session document
+JSON
+    
+
+****
+    
+    
@@ -56,2 +62,2 @@ To start a default shell session, you must specify the default session document
-            "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:123456789012:instance/i-02573cafcfEXAMPLE",
-            "arn:aws:ssm:us-west-2:123456789012:document/SSM-SessionManagerRunShell"
+            "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2::instance/",
+            "arn:aws:ssm:us-west-2::document/SSM-SessionManagerRunShell"