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AWS workspaces documentation change

Service: workspaces · 2025-10-25 · Documentation low

File: workspaces/latest/adminguide/launch-workspace-simple-ad.md

Summary

Clarified Simple AD regional availability and added IPv4-only network support note

Security assessment

The changes provide technical clarification about network protocol support but do not address specific security vulnerabilities or introduce new security features.

Diff

diff --git a/workspaces/latest/adminguide/launch-workspace-simple-ad.md b/workspaces/latest/adminguide/launch-workspace-simple-ad.md
index c7104791b..97144e74c 100644
--- a//workspaces/latest/adminguide/launch-workspace-simple-ad.md
+++ b//workspaces/latest/adminguide/launch-workspace-simple-ad.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ In this tutorial, we launch a WorkSpace that uses Simple AD. For tutorials that
-  * Simple AD is not available in every Region. Verify the supported Regions and [ select a Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/getting-started.html#select-region) for your Simple AD directory. For more information about the supported Regions for Simple AD, see [ Region Availability for AWS Directory Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/regions.html).
+  * Simple AD is not available in every AWS Region. Verify the supported Regions and [ select a Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/getting-started.html#select-region) for your Simple AD directory. For more information about the supported Regions for Simple AD, see [ Region Availability for AWS Directory Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/regions.html).
@@ -14,0 +15,2 @@ In this tutorial, we launch a WorkSpace that uses Simple AD. For tutorials that
+  * [ Simple AD](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/simple_ad_getting_started.html) currently supports only IPv4 addressing, meaning that when creating a directory, the associated VPC will be configured with an IPv4 CIDR block and does not support IPv6 networks.
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