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AWS waf documentation change

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

File: waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing.md

Summary

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

Security assessment

Changes are purely terminological clarifications without addressing vulnerabilities or security features. No evidence of security fixes or new security guidance.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing.md
index b45f2806f..4f4615614 100644
--- a//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing.md
+++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/web-acl-testing.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ You can now use the updated experience to access AWS WAF functionality anywhere
-This section provides guidance for testing and tuning your AWS WAF protection pack or web ACLs, rules, rule groups, IP sets, and regex pattern sets.
+This section provides guidance for testing and tuning your AWS WAF protection packs (web ACLs), rules, rule groups, IP sets, and regex pattern sets.
@@ -13 +13 @@ This section provides guidance for testing and tuning your AWS WAF protection pa
-We recommend that you test and tune any changes to your AWS WAF protection pack or web ACL before applying them to your website or web application traffic. 
+We recommend that you test and tune any changes to your AWS WAF protection pack (web ACL) before applying them to your website or web application traffic. 
@@ -17 +17 @@ We recommend that you test and tune any changes to your AWS WAF protection pack
-Before you deploy your protection pack or web ACL implementation for production traffic, test and tune it in a staging or testing environment until you are comfortable with the potential impact to your traffic. Then test and tune the rules in count mode with your production traffic before enabling them. 
+Before you deploy your protection pack (web ACL) implementation for production traffic, test and tune it in a staging or testing environment until you are comfortable with the potential impact to your traffic. Then test and tune the rules in count mode with your production traffic before enabling them. 
@@ -32 +32 @@ This section also provides general guidance for testing your use of rule groups
-When you create or change a protection pack or web ACL or other AWS WAF resources, the changes take a small amount of time to propagate to all areas where the resources are stored. The propagation time can be from a few seconds to a number of minutes. 
+When you create or change a protection pack (web ACL) or other AWS WAF resources, the changes take a small amount of time to propagate to all areas where the resources are stored. The propagation time can be from a few seconds to a number of minutes. 
@@ -36 +36 @@ The following are examples of the temporary inconsistencies that you might notic
-  * After you create a protection pack or web ACL, if you try to associate it with a resource, you might get an exception indicating that the protection pack or web ACL is unavailable. 
+  * After you create a protection pack (web ACL), if you try to associate it with a resource, you might get an exception indicating that the protection pack (web ACL) is unavailable. 
@@ -38 +38 @@ The following are examples of the temporary inconsistencies that you might notic
-  * After you add a rule group to a protection pack or web ACL, the new rule group rules might be in effect in one area where the protection pack or web ACL is used and not in another.
+  * After you add a rule group to a protection pack (web ACL), the new rule group rules might be in effect in one area where the protection pack (web ACL) is used and not in another.
@@ -53 +53 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Configuring data protection for a protection pack or web ACL
+Configuring data protection for a protection pack (web ACL)