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AWS entityresolution documentation change

Service: entityresolution · 2025-09-10 · Documentation medium

File: entityresolution/latest/userguide/create-workflow-job-role.md

Summary

Updated policy to allow cross-region AWS Glue, S3, and KMS resources

Security assessment

While cross-region access could introduce misconfiguration risks, the change itself is a feature update, not a security fix or documentation addition.

Diff

diff --git a/entityresolution/latest/userguide/create-workflow-job-role.md b/entityresolution/latest/userguide/create-workflow-job-role.md
index d485b0359..fcd97c283 100644
--- a//entityresolution/latest/userguide/create-workflow-job-role.md
+++ b//entityresolution/latest/userguide/create-workflow-job-role.md
@@ -57 +57 @@ The following example policy supports the permissions needed to read correspondi
-Your AWS Glue resources and underlying Amazon S3 resources must be in the same AWS Region as AWS Entity Resolution.
+You can use AWS Glue resources and underlying Amazon S3 resources from any Region in the AWS commercial partition where AWS Glue is supported – they don't need to be in the same Region as AWS Entity Resolution.
@@ -63 +63 @@ Replace each `{{user input placeholder}}` with your own information.
-`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. Your AWS Glue resources, underlying Amazon S3 resources and AWS KMS resources must be in the same AWS Region as `AWS Entity Resolution`.  
+`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. You can use AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and AWS KMS resources from any commercial same AWS Region where these services are supported.  
@@ -84 +84 @@ Replace each `{{user input placeholder}}` with your own information.
-`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. Your AWS Glue resources, underlying Amazon S3 resources and AWS KMS resources must be in the same AWS Region as `AWS Entity Resolution`.  
+`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. You can use AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and AWS KMS resources from any commercial same AWS Region where these services are supported.  
@@ -105 +105 @@ Replace each `{{user input placeholder}}` with your own information.
-`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. Your AWS Glue resources, underlying Amazon S3 resources and AWS KMS resources must be in the same AWS Region as `AWS Entity Resolution`.  
+`aws-region` | AWS Region of your resources. You can use AWS Glue, Amazon S3, and AWS KMS resources from any commercial same AWS Region where these services are supported.