AWS IAM documentation change
Summary
Updated documentation to replace 'AWS CloudFormation' with 'CloudFormation' throughout the document for terminology consistency
Security assessment
Changes are purely branding/terminology updates (removing redundant 'AWS' prefix from CloudFormation references). No security-related content modifications or vulnerability fixes are present in the diff.
Diff
diff --git a/IAM/latest/UserGuide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.md b/IAM/latest/UserGuide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.md index 2187af308..a166c3f33 100644 --- a//IAM/latest/UserGuide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.md +++ b//IAM/latest/UserGuide/creating-resources-with-cloudformation.md @@ -5 +5 @@ -IAM and AWS CloudFormation templatesLearn more about AWS CloudFormation +IAM and CloudFormation templatesLearn more about CloudFormation @@ -7 +7 @@ IAM and AWS CloudFormation templatesLearn more about AWS CloudFormation -# Create IAM resources with AWS CloudFormation +# Create IAM resources with CloudFormation @@ -9 +9 @@ IAM and AWS CloudFormation templatesLearn more about AWS CloudFormation -AWS Identity and Access Management is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (such as access keys, groups, group policies, instance profiles, managed policies, OIDC providers, inline policies, roles, role policies, SAML providers, server certificates, service-linked roles, users (and adding users to groups), user policies, and virtual MFA devices), and AWS CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you. +AWS Identity and Access Management is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (such as access keys, groups, group policies, instance profiles, managed policies, OIDC providers, inline policies, roles, role policies, SAML providers, server certificates, service-linked roles, users (and adding users to groups), user policies, and virtual MFA devices), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you. @@ -11 +11 @@ AWS Identity and Access Management is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a serv -When you use AWS CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your IAM resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions. +When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your IAM resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions. @@ -13 +13 @@ When you use AWS CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your IAM -## IAM and AWS CloudFormation templates +## IAM and CloudFormation templates @@ -15 +15 @@ When you use AWS CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your IAM -To provision and configure resources for IAM and related services, you must understand [AWS CloudFormation templates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/template-guide.html). Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your AWS CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use AWS CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with AWS CloudFormation templates. For more information, see [What is AWS CloudFormation Designer?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/working-with-templates-cfn-designer.html) in the _AWS CloudFormation User Guide_. +To provision and configure resources for IAM and related services, you must understand [CloudFormation templates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/template-guide.html). Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see [What is CloudFormation Designer?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/working-with-templates-cfn-designer.html) in the _AWS CloudFormation User Guide_. @@ -17 +17 @@ To provision and configure resources for IAM and related services, you must unde -IAM supports creating access keys, groups, group policies, instance profiles, managed policies, OIDC providers, inline policies, roles, role policies, SAML providers, server certificates, service-linked roles, users (and adding users to groups), user policies, and virtual MFA devices in AWS CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for IAM resources, see the [AWS Identity and Access Management resource type reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_IAM.html) in the _AWS CloudFormation User Guide_. +IAM supports creating access keys, groups, group policies, instance profiles, managed policies, OIDC providers, inline policies, roles, role policies, SAML providers, server certificates, service-linked roles, users (and adding users to groups), user policies, and virtual MFA devices in CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for IAM resources, see the [AWS Identity and Access Management resource type reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_IAM.html) in the _AWS CloudFormation User Guide_. @@ -21 +21 @@ You can also create templates that create related resources, such as roles and m -## Learn more about AWS CloudFormation +## Learn more about CloudFormation @@ -23 +23 @@ You can also create templates that create related resources, such as roles and m -To learn more about AWS CloudFormation, see the following resources: +To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources: @@ -29 +29 @@ To learn more about AWS CloudFormation, see the following resources: - * [AWS CloudFormation API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html) + * [CloudFormation API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html)