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AWS waf documentation change

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

File: waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-processing-order.md

Summary

Updated terminology from 'protection pack or web ACL' to 'protection pack (web ACL)' throughout the document, clarifying terminology consistency

Security assessment

The changes are purely terminological clarifications (parenthetical web ACL references) without altering security functionality or addressing vulnerabilities. No evidence of security fixes or incident response.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-processing-order.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-processing-order.md
index da080e2b1..7328d5eac 100644
--- a//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-processing-order.md
+++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-processing-order.md
@@ -13 +13 @@ This section explains how AWS WAF uses numeric priority settings to set the eval
-In a protection pack or web ACL and inside any rule group, you determine the evaluation order of the rules using numeric priority settings. You must give each rule in a protection pack or web ACL a unique priority setting within that protection pack or web ACL, and you must give each rule in a rule group a unique priority setting within that rule group. 
+In a protection pack (web ACL) and inside any rule group, you determine the evaluation order of the rules using numeric priority settings. You must give each rule in a protection pack (web ACL) a unique priority setting within that protection pack (web ACL), and you must give each rule in a rule group a unique priority setting within that rule group. 
@@ -17 +17 @@ In a protection pack or web ACL and inside any rule group, you determine the eva
-When you manage rule groups, protection pack or web ACLs through the console, AWS WAF assigns unique numeric priority settings for you based on the order of the rules in the list. AWS WAF assigns the lowest numeric priority to the rule at the top of the list, and the highest numeric priority to the rule at the bottom. 
+When you manage rule groups, protection packs (web ACLs) through the console, AWS WAF assigns unique numeric priority settings for you based on the order of the rules in the list. AWS WAF assigns the lowest numeric priority to the rule at the top of the list, and the highest numeric priority to the rule at the bottom. 
@@ -19 +19 @@ When you manage rule groups, protection pack or web ACLs through the console, AW
-When AWS WAF evaluates any rule group, protection pack or web ACL against a web request, it evaluates the rules from the lowest numeric priority setting on up until it either finds a match that terminates the evaluation or exhausts all of the rules.
+When AWS WAF evaluates any rule group, protection pack (web ACL) against a web request, it evaluates the rules from the lowest numeric priority setting on up until it either finds a match that terminates the evaluation or exhausts all of the rules.
@@ -21 +21 @@ When AWS WAF evaluates any rule group, protection pack or web ACL against a web
-For example, say you have the following rules and rule groups in your protection pack, prioritized as shown:
+For example, say you have the following rules and rule groups in your protection pack (web ACL), prioritized as shown:
@@ -42 +42 @@ For example, say you have the following rules and rule groups in your protection
-AWS WAF would evaluate the rules for this protection pack in the following order:
+AWS WAF would evaluate the rules for this protection pack (web ACL) in the following order:
@@ -65 +65 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Using protection pack or web ACLs with rules and rule groups
+Using protection packs (web ACLs) with rules and rule groups