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AWS AmazonCloudWatch documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudWatch · 2025-10-01 · Documentation low

File: AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.md

Summary

Updated 'anomaly detection' to 'outlier detection' in feature description

Security assessment

Consistent terminology change across documentation with no security impact.

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diff --git a/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.md b/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.md
index cf1b807af..78873e2bb 100644
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+++ b//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search.md
@@ -72 +72 @@ If you send traces to X-Ray, you can [get started by enabling Transaction Search
-When you enable Transaction Search, spans sent to X-Ray are ingested in a log group called `aws/spans`. CloudWatch uses these spans to generate a curated application performance monitoring (APM) experience in CloudWatch Application Signals. This provides you the ability to search and analyze spans, as well as use CloudWatch Logs capabilities like anomaly and pattern detection. You can even use custom metric extraction . CloudWatch Application Signals provides you with a unified, application-centric view of your applications, services, and dependencies. It also helps you monitor and triage application health. 
+When you enable Transaction Search, spans sent to X-Ray are ingested in a log group called `aws/spans`. CloudWatch uses these spans to generate a curated application performance monitoring (APM) experience in CloudWatch Application Signals. This provides you the ability to search and analyze spans, as well as use CloudWatch Logs capabilities like outlier and pattern detection. You can even use custom metric extraction . CloudWatch Application Signals provides you with a unified, application-centric view of your applications, services, and dependencies. It also helps you monitor and triage application health.