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AWS snowball documentation change

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

File: snowball/latest/developer-guide/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed section explaining requirement to sign requests with IAM credentials or AWS STS temporary security credentials

Security assessment

Deletes standard security guidance about API request signing without indicating a vulnerability resolution. While this reduces documentation of security features, there's no explicit link to a security incident or weakness being addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/snowball/latest/developer-guide/infrastructure-security.md b/snowball/latest/developer-guide/infrastructure-security.md
index 5f89819ea..0a55f876b 100644
--- a//snowball/latest/developer-guide/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//snowball/latest/developer-guide/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -20,2 +19,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access AWS Snow Family through the network. C
-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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