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AWS rekognition documentation change

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

File: rekognition/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed documentation about requiring signed API requests with IAM or temporary security credentials

Security assessment

The deletion removes general security practice documentation about API request signing. However, AWS services inherently require signed requests, and there's no indication this change fixes an active security issue. Likely consolidating authentication documentation elsewhere.

Diff

diff --git a/rekognition/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md b/rekognition/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
index 56ce78e89..743d71706 100644
--- a//rekognition/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//rekognition/latest/dg/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -18,2 +17,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access Amazon Rekognition 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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