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AWS systems-manager documentation change

Service: systems-manager · 2025-08-28 · Documentation medium

File: systems-manager/latest/userguide/patch-manager-create-a-patch-baseline-for-linux.md

Summary

Removed note about SLES automatically installing security patches without requiring checkbox selection

Security assessment

While this change removes documentation about default security patch behavior for SLES, there is no evidence it addresses a specific security vulnerability. The impact is procedural rather than directly security-related.

Diff

diff --git a/systems-manager/latest/userguide/patch-manager-create-a-patch-baseline-for-linux.md b/systems-manager/latest/userguide/patch-manager-create-a-patch-baseline-for-linux.md
index cb03a1161..b5cfd161d 100644
--- a//systems-manager/latest/userguide/patch-manager-create-a-patch-baseline-for-linux.md
+++ b//systems-manager/latest/userguide/patch-manager-create-a-patch-baseline-for-linux.md
@@ -77,4 +76,0 @@ If you specify a compliance reporting level and the patch state of any approved
-###### Note
-
-For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, (SLES) it isn't necessary to select the check box because patches for security and nonsecurity issues are installed by default on SLES managed nodes. For more information, see the content for SLES in [How security patches are selected](./patch-manager-selecting-patches.html).
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