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AWS global-accelerator documentation change

Service: global-accelerator · 2025-10-22 · Documentation low

File: global-accelerator/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed details about API request signing using IAM credentials and AWS STS

Security assessment

The removed content described standard authentication mechanisms but does not indicate a security vulnerability fix. While authentication is security-related, there is no evidence this change addresses a specific security weakness or incident.

Diff

diff --git a/global-accelerator/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md b/global-accelerator/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
index fc2aaa169..90e02ef23 100644
--- a//global-accelerator/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//global-accelerator/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -18,2 +17,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access Global Accelerator through the network
-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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