AWS AWSMechTurk medium security documentation change

Service: AWSMechTurk · 2025-10-25 · Security-related medium

File: AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI-legacy/ApiReference_NotificationReceptorAPI_SQSTransportArticle.md

Summary

Removed legacy SQS policy example using specific IAM user ARN

Security assessment

The removed policy example used a hardcoded IAM user principal. This could indicate deprecation of an insecure pattern, but removal without replacement guidance might leave users without proper configuration examples.

Diff

diff --git a/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI-legacy/ApiReference_NotificationReceptorAPI_SQSTransportArticle.md b/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI-legacy/ApiReference_NotificationReceptorAPI_SQSTransportArticle.md
index 1a103ada7..5105a6fb8 100644
--- a//AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI-legacy/ApiReference_NotificationReceptorAPI_SQSTransportArticle.md
+++ b//AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI-legacy/ApiReference_NotificationReceptorAPI_SQSTransportArticle.md
@@ -45,17 +44,0 @@ The following example policy document only creates the [SendMessage](http://docs
-    
-    {
-     "Version": "2008-10-17",
-     "Id": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:<customer_account_id>:<customer_queue_name>/MTurkOnlyPolicy",
-     "Statement": [
-      {
-       "Sid": "MTurkOnlyPolicy",
-       "Effect": "Allow",
-       "Principal": {
-        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::755651556756:user/MTurk-SQS"
-       },
-       "Action": "SQS:SendMessage",
-       "Resource": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:<customer_account_id>:<customer_queue_name>"
-      }
-     ]
-    }
-