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AWS snowball documentation change

Service: snowball · 2025-08-28 · Documentation low

File: snowball/latest/developer-guide/eksa-configuration.md

Summary

Removed JSON policy example for IAM permissions related to Snowball device management and EC2 operations

Security assessment

The change removes an example IAM policy but does not indicate any security vulnerability being addressed. The policy showed required permissions for device management but removal doesn't directly relate to security flaws.

Diff

diff --git a/snowball/latest/developer-guide/eksa-configuration.md b/snowball/latest/developer-guide/eksa-configuration.md
index a86ead2c0..8d1c88bfb 100644
--- a//snowball/latest/developer-guide/eksa-configuration.md
+++ b//snowball/latest/developer-guide/eksa-configuration.md
@@ -93,39 +92,0 @@ Create a policy document, use it to create an IAM policy, and attach that policy
-JSON
-    
-
-****
-    
-    
-        {
-      "Version": "2012-10-17",
-      "Statement": [
-        {
-          "Effect": "Allow",
-          "Action": [
-            "snowball:DescribeDevice",
-            "snowball:CreateDirectNetworkInterface",
-            "snowball:DeleteDirectNetworkInterface",
-            "snowball:DescribeDirectNetworkInterfaces",
-            "snowball:DescribeDeviceSoftware"
-          ],
-          "Resource": ["*"]
-        },
-        {
-          "Effect": "Allow",
-          "Action": [
-            "ec2:RunInstances",
-            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
-            "ec2:TerminateInstances",
-            "ec2:ImportKeyPair",
-            "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
-            "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
-            "ec2:DescribeImages",
-            "ec2:DeleteTags"
-          ],
-          "Resource": ["*"]
-        }
-      ]
-    }
-        
-    
-