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AWS autoscaling documentation change

Service: autoscaling · 2025-10-22 · Documentation low

File: autoscaling/application/userguide/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed details about API request signing using access keys and AWS STS

Security assessment

While the deleted content relates to security best practices (request signing), the removal appears to be documentation simplification rather than addressing a security issue. No evidence of a vulnerability being fixed or new security feature being documented.

Diff

diff --git a/autoscaling/application/userguide/infrastructure-security.md b/autoscaling/application/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
index 8ea51fa46..831ec45e8 100644
--- a//autoscaling/application/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//autoscaling/application/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -18,2 +17,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access Application Auto Scaling through the n
-Additionally, requests must be signed by using an access key ID and a secret access key that is associated with an IAM principal. Or you can use the [AWS Security Token Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/welcome.html) (AWS STS) to generate temporary security credentials to sign requests.
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