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AWS mediatailor medium security documentation change

Service: mediatailor · 2025-10-22 · Security-related medium

File: mediatailor/latest/ug/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed documentation about requiring signed requests using IAM credentials or AWS STS temporary security credentials

Security assessment

The removed content described fundamental security controls (request signing with IAM credentials/STS) that are critical for API authentication. Removing this documentation could lead to developer misconfigurations by omitting required security practices for API access.

Diff

diff --git a/mediatailor/latest/ug/infrastructure-security.md b/mediatailor/latest/ug/infrastructure-security.md
index 2d931fe62..3f95f087f 100644
--- a//mediatailor/latest/ug/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//mediatailor/latest/ug/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -18,2 +17,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access MediaTailor through the network. Clien
-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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