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AWS AmazonECS documentation change

Service: AmazonECS · 2025-10-01 · Documentation medium

File: AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-ecs-iam-role-overview.md

Summary

Added documentation about ECS Managed Instances requirements and instance profile role

Security assessment

Adds documentation about secure role configuration for ECS Managed Instances, explaining IAM role requirements for infrastructure management. This enhances security documentation but doesn't address a specific vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-ecs-iam-role-overview.md b/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-ecs-iam-role-overview.md
index a50f77589..0aac03e8a 100644
--- a//AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-ecs-iam-role-overview.md
+++ b//AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-ecs-iam-role-overview.md
@@ -33,0 +34 @@ Amazon ECS infrastructure role | This role allows Amazon ECS to manage infrastru
+  * You want to use Amazon ECS Managed Instances for your capacity.
@@ -38,0 +40 @@ Amazon ECS infrastructure role | This role allows Amazon ECS to manage infrastru
+Instance profile | This role allows allows Amazon ECS Managed Instances to assume the infrastructure role securely. | You use Amazon ECS Managed Instances in your clusters. | [Amazon ECS Managed Instances instance profile](./managed-instances-instance-profile.html)  
@@ -46 +48 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Using service-linked roles
+Allow Amazon ECS to manage Amazon ECS Managed Instances