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AWS transfer documentation change

Service: transfer · 2025-10-22 · Documentation medium

File: transfer/latest/userguide/infrastructure-security.md

Summary

Removed sentence about access key signing and AWS STS requirements

Security assessment

While the removed content relates to general API security practices, the deletion does not indicate a resolved vulnerability or introduce new security risks. This appears to be content editing rather than a security-focused change.

Diff

diff --git a/transfer/latest/userguide/infrastructure-security.md b/transfer/latest/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
index adf7add45..59cf96ab3 100644
--- a//transfer/latest/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
+++ b//transfer/latest/userguide/infrastructure-security.md
@@ -20,2 +19,0 @@ You use AWS published API calls to access AWS Transfer Family through the networ
-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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