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AWS govcloud-us medium security documentation change

Service: govcloud-us · 2025-08-25 · Security-related medium

File: govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-vpc.md

Summary

Removed VPC launch requirements for EC2/RDS/EMR, updated traffic mirroring wording, and simplified metadata descriptions

Security assessment

Removing the requirement to launch resources in a VPC impacts network security controls. However, no explicit security vulnerability is addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-vpc.md b/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-vpc.md
index 7ac52274c..d2ee2946e 100644
--- a//govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-vpc.md
+++ b//govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-vpc.md
@@ -17,2 +16,0 @@ Not all Amazon VPC endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) support Amazon VPC endpoint po
-  * You must launch Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS instances, or Amazon EMR instances in an Amazon VPC. In some cases, your account might have a default VPC. For more information, see [Determining if your account has a default VPC](AWSGovCloudDocs/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-ec2.html#govcloud-ec2-vpc).
-
@@ -21 +19 @@ Not all Amazon VPC endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) support Amazon VPC endpoint po
-  * Traffic mirror sessions are visible to the owner of a traffic mirror target only if created using the same account. If a traffic mirror target is shared with other accounts, those other accounts may still create sessions with that target, but those sessions will not be visible to the target owner.
+  * Traffic mirror sessions are visible to the owner of a traffic mirror target only if created using the same account. If a traffic mirror target is shared with other accounts, those other accounts can still create sessions with that target, but those sessions are not visible to the target owner.
@@ -25,2 +22,0 @@ Not all Amazon VPC endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) support Amazon VPC endpoint po
-  * You can't visualize your global network in geographic map view in Transit Gateway Network Manager console.
-
@@ -40 +36 @@ Not all Amazon VPC endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) support Amazon VPC endpoint po
-[Amazon VPC documentation](http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/vpc/).
+[Amazon VPC documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/)
@@ -48 +44 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Name and Description of [Security Groups](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html) and [Security Group Rules](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html#SecurityGroupRules).
+    * Names and descriptions of security groups and security group rules
@@ -50 +46 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Key and Value of [DHCP option sets ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_DHCP_Options.html) created in your VPC.
+    * Keys and values of DHCP option sets
@@ -52 +48 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Client Token values used for [Idempotency](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Run_Instance_Idempotency.html#client-tokens) of your API calls.
+    * Names of destination log groups for VPC Flow Logs
@@ -54 +50 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Destination log group name of [VPC Flow Logs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html).
+    * Tag keys and values
@@ -56 +52 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Service name of a [VPC Endpoint](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/create-endpoint-service.html).
+    * Service names of VPC endpoints
@@ -58 +54 @@ For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following
-    * Key and Value of [Tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html) associated with your resources.
+    * Client token values used for the idempotency of API requests