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AWS appflow documentation change

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

File: appflow/latest/userguide/getting-started.md

Summary

Changed 'AWS CloudFormation' to 'CloudFormation' in OAuth context

Security assessment

The modification is purely terminological (shortening service name). No security-related content was added or modified beyond the existing OAuth token handling instructions.

Diff

diff --git a/appflow/latest/userguide/getting-started.md b/appflow/latest/userguide/getting-started.md
index 4ff392f17..be248d64e 100644
--- a//appflow/latest/userguide/getting-started.md
+++ b//appflow/latest/userguide/getting-started.md
@@ -30 +30 @@ Complete the following prerequisites before getting started with Amazon AppFlow.
-  * AWS CloudFormation OAuth (Optional) — If you want to use AWS CloudFormation to create a connector profile for connectors that implement OAuth (such as Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, and Google Analytics), you must fetch the access and refresh tokens. You can do this by implementing your own UI for OAuth, or by retrieving them from elsewhere. Alternatively, you can use the Amazon AppFlow console to create the connector profile, and then use that connector profile in the flow creation AWS CloudFormation template.
+  * CloudFormation OAuth (Optional) — If you want to use CloudFormation to create a connector profile for connectors that implement OAuth (such as Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, and Google Analytics), you must fetch the access and refresh tokens. You can do this by implementing your own UI for OAuth, or by retrieving them from elsewhere. Alternatively, you can use the Amazon AppFlow console to create the connector profile, and then use that connector profile in the flow creation CloudFormation template.