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AWS evs documentation change

Service: evs · 2025-08-16 · Documentation low

File: evs/latest/userguide/using-service-linked-roles.md

Summary

Updated service-linked role description to include EVS hosts management and corrected documentation link

Security assessment

The change adds 'EVS hosts' to the list of managed resources but does not introduce new security features or address specific vulnerabilities. This is a routine documentation clarification.

Diff

diff --git a/evs/latest/userguide/using-service-linked-roles.md b/evs/latest/userguide/using-service-linked-roles.md
index 7be7ebaac..8db8d499c 100644
--- a//evs/latest/userguide/using-service-linked-roles.md
+++ b//evs/latest/userguide/using-service-linked-roles.md
@@ -19 +19 @@ For information about other services that support service-linked roles, see [AWS
-Amazon EVS uses the service-linked role named `AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEVS`. The role allows Amazon EVS to manage environments in your account. The attached policy allows the role to manage the following resources: EVS elastic network interfaces, EVS VLAN subnets, VPCs, and CloudWatch metrics.
+Amazon EVS uses the service-linked role named `AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEVS`. The role allows Amazon EVS to manage environments in your account. The attached policy allows the role to manage the following resources: EVS elastic network interfaces, EVS VLAN subnets, EVS hosts, VPCs, and CloudWatch metrics.
@@ -65 +65 @@ Use the IAM console, the AWS CLI, or the AWS API to delete the `AWSServiceRoleFo
-Amazon EVS supports using service-linked roles in all of the regions where the service is available. For more information, see [Amazon Elastic VMware Service endpoints and quotas](./service-quotas-evs.html).
+Amazon EVS supports using service-linked roles in all of the regions where the service is available. For more information, see [Amazon Elastic VMware Service endpoints and quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/evs.html) in the _AWS General Reference Guide_.