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AWS greengrass documentation change

Service: greengrass · 2025-11-07 · Documentation medium

File: greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system-feature-support-matrix.md

Summary

Updated HSM support for Greengrass Nucleus Lite to 'Yes', added TPM tutorial link, and expanded feature support (Docker, CloudWatch metrics).

Security assessment

Enabling HSM support for Nucleus Lite documents a security feature (hardware-protected credentials). No evidence of addressing a specific vulnerability, but improves security posture.

Diff

diff --git a/greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system-feature-support-matrix.md b/greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system-feature-support-matrix.md
index ffb8ab4b2..3ec77496a 100644
--- a//greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system-feature-support-matrix.md
+++ b//greengrass/v2/developerguide/operating-system-feature-support-matrix.md
@@ -9 +9 @@ AWS IoT Greengrass supports devices that run various operating systems. Some fea
-Messaging Feature | Linux | Windows | Greengrass lite (Linux)  
+Messaging Feature | Linux | Windows | Greengrass Nucleus Lite (Linux)  
@@ -20 +20 @@ Deploy and access secure, encrypted secrets from AWS Secrets Manager |  Yes  |
-Use a hardware security module (HSM) to securely store the device's private key and certificate |  Yes  |  No  |  No   
+Use a hardware security module (HSM) to securely store the device's private key and certificate |  Yes  |  No  |  [Yes](./gg-lite-with-tpm-tutorial.html)  
@@ -29 +29 @@ Install AWS IoT Greengrass with AWS IoT fleet provisioning |  Yes  |  Yes  |  Ye
-Install AWS IoT Greengrass with custom provisioning plugins |  Yes  |  Yes  |  No   
+Install AWS IoT Greengrass with custom provisioning |  [Yes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/custom-provisioning.html) |  [Yes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/v2/developerguide/custom-provisioning.html) |  Yes   
@@ -52 +52 @@ Deploy and invoke Lambda functions |  Yes  |  No  |  No
-Run Docker containers in components |  Yes  |  Yes  |  No   
+Run Docker containers in components |  Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes   
@@ -57 +57 @@ Upload logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs |  Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes
-Upload data to Amazon CloudWatch metrics using the CloudWatch metrics component |  Yes  |  Yes  |  No   
+Upload data to Amazon CloudWatch metrics using the CloudWatch metrics component |  Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes   
@@ -59 +59 @@ Publish messages to Amazon Simple Notification Service using the Amazon SNS comp
-Publish data to Amazon Data Firehose delivery streams using stream manager |  Yes  |  Yes  |  No   
+Publish data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams delivery streams using stream manager |  Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes