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AWS waf documentation change

Service: waf · 2025-08-22 · Documentation low

File: waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary-capabilities.md

Summary

Replaced 'protection pack or web ACL' with 'protection pack (web ACL)' for terminology consistency in cost coverage and WCU usage context

Security assessment

Terminology clarification about Shield Advanced billing coverage and capacity units. No security vulnerability remediation or new security features documented.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary-capabilities.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary-capabilities.md
index 4914e4da4..d108500df 100644
--- a//waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary-capabilities.md
+++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary-capabilities.md
@@ -17 +17 @@ AWS Shield Advanced subscription includes the following capabilities and options
-Your Shield Advanced subscription covers the costs of using standard AWS WAF capabilities for resources that you protect with Shield Advanced. The standard AWS WAF fees that are covered by your Shield Advanced protections are the cost per protection pack or web ACL, the cost per rule, and the base price per million requests for web request inspection, up to 1,500 WCUs and up to the default body size.
+Your Shield Advanced subscription covers the costs of using standard AWS WAF capabilities for resources that you protect with Shield Advanced. The standard AWS WAF fees that are covered by your Shield Advanced protections are the cost per protection pack (web ACL), the cost per rule, and the base price per million requests for web request inspection, up to 1,500 WCUs and up to the default body size.
@@ -19 +19 @@ Your Shield Advanced subscription covers the costs of using standard AWS WAF cap
-Enabling Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation adds a rule group to your protection pack or web ACL that uses 150 web ACL capacity units (WCUs). These WCUs count against the WCU usage in your protection pack or web ACL. For more information, see [Automating application layer DDoS mitigation with Shield Advanced ](./ddos-automatic-app-layer-response.html), [Protecting the application layer with the Shield Advanced rule group](./ddos-automatic-app-layer-response-rg.html), and [Web ACL capacity units (WCUs) in AWS WAF](./aws-waf-capacity-units.html).
+Enabling Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation adds a rule group to your protection pack (web ACL) that uses 150 web ACL capacity units (WCUs). These WCUs count against the WCU usage in your protection pack (web ACL). For more information, see [Automating application layer DDoS mitigation with Shield Advanced ](./ddos-automatic-app-layer-response.html), [Protecting the application layer with the Shield Advanced rule group](./ddos-automatic-app-layer-response-rg.html), and [Web ACL capacity units (WCUs) in AWS WAF](./aws-waf-capacity-units.html).