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AWS waf documentation change

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

File: waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control-components.md

Summary

Updated terminology from 'protection pack or web ACL' to 'protection pack (web ACL)' in multiple sections for consistency

Security assessment

The changes are purely terminological clarifications replacing 'or' with parenthetical notation. There is no evidence of addressing security vulnerabilities or weaknesses. The updates maintain existing security documentation about bot control features but do not introduce new security content or address specific security issues.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control-components.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control-components.md
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@@ -31 +31 @@ For details including information about the rule group's rules, see [AWS WAF Bot
-You include this rule group in your protection pack or web ACL using a managed rule group reference statement and indicating the inspection level that you want to use. For the targeted level, you also indicate whether to enable machine learning. For more information about adding this managed rule group to your protection pack or web ACL, see [Adding the AWS WAF Bot Control managed rule group to your web ACL](./waf-bot-control-rg-using.html). 
+You include this rule group in your protection pack (web ACL) using a managed rule group reference statement and indicating the inspection level that you want to use. For the targeted level, you also indicate whether to enable machine learning. For more information about adding this managed rule group to your protection pack (web ACL), see [Adding the AWS WAF Bot Control managed rule group to your web ACL](./waf-bot-control-rg-using.html). 
@@ -33 +33 @@ You include this rule group in your protection pack or web ACL using a managed r
-  * **Bot Control dashboard** – The bot monitoring dashboard for your protection pack or web ACL, available through the protection pack or web ACL Bot Control tab. Use this dashboard to monitor your traffic and understand how much of it comes from various types of bots. This can be a starting point for customizing your bot management, as described in this topic. You can also use it to verify your changes and monitor activity for various bots and bot categories. 
+  * **Bot Control dashboard** – The bot monitoring dashboard for your protection pack (web ACL), available through the protection pack (web ACL) Bot Control tab. Use this dashboard to monitor your traffic and understand how much of it comes from various types of bots. This can be a starting point for customizing your bot management, as described in this topic. You can also use it to verify your changes and monitor activity for various bots and bot categories. 
@@ -37 +37 @@ You include this rule group in your protection pack or web ACL using a managed r
-  * **Logging and metrics** – You can monitor your bot traffic and understand how the Bot Control managed rule group evaluates and handles your traffic by studying the data that's collected for your protection pack or web ACL by AWS WAF logs, Amazon Security Lake, and Amazon CloudWatch. The labels that Bot Control adds to your web requests are included in the data. For information about these options, see [Logging AWS WAF protection pack or web ACL traffic](./logging.html), [Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch](./monitoring-cloudwatch.html), and [What is Amazon Security Lake?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/security-lake/latest/userguide/what-is-security-lake.html). 
+  * **Logging and metrics** – You can monitor your bot traffic and understand how the Bot Control managed rule group evaluates and handles your traffic by studying the data that's collected for your protection pack (web ACL) by AWS WAF logs, Amazon Security Lake, and Amazon CloudWatch. The labels that Bot Control adds to your web requests are included in the data. For information about these options, see [Logging AWS WAF protection pack (web ACL) traffic](./logging.html), [Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch](./monitoring-cloudwatch.html), and [What is Amazon Security Lake?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/security-lake/latest/userguide/what-is-security-lake.html).