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AWS AWSEC2 documentation change

Service: AWSEC2 · 2025-11-19 · Documentation low

File: AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-windows-security-best-practices.md

Summary

Updated references from 'AWS CloudFormation' to 'CloudFormation' for consistency

Security assessment

Change is a branding/style update without security implications. No vulnerabilities or security features are mentioned.

Diff

diff --git a/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-windows-security-best-practices.md b/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-windows-security-best-practices.md
index 778606698..ed34fa002 100644
--- a//AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-windows-security-best-practices.md
+++ b//AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-windows-security-best-practices.md
@@ -152 +152 @@ After initial security baselines are applied to Amazon EC2 instances at launch,
-AWS provides several tools to help manage changes to AWS resources, including AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and management packs for Systems Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Note that Microsoft releases Windows patches the second Tuesday of each month (or as needed) and AWS updates all Windows AMIs managed by AWS within five days after Microsoft releases a patch. Therefore it is important to continually patch all baseline AMIs, update AWS CloudFormation templates and Auto Scaling group configurations with the latest AMI IDs, and implement tools to automate running instance patch management.
+AWS provides several tools to help manage changes to AWS resources, including AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, CloudFormation, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and management packs for Systems Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Note that Microsoft releases Windows patches the second Tuesday of each month (or as needed) and AWS updates all Windows AMIs managed by AWS within five days after Microsoft releases a patch. Therefore it is important to continually patch all baseline AMIs, update CloudFormation templates and Auto Scaling group configurations with the latest AMI IDs, and implement tools to automate running instance patch management.