AWS network-firewall documentation change
Summary
Updated propagation time estimate from 'seconds' to 'minutes' for firewall changes
Security assessment
The change clarifies operational characteristics but does not address security vulnerabilities or add security features. The note about temporary inconsistency during updates remains a known behavior warning rather than a security fix.
Diff
diff --git a/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/firewall-managing.md b/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/firewall-managing.md index 76c2b3d30..6c444b725 100644 --- a//network-firewall/latest/developerguide/firewall-managing.md +++ b//network-firewall/latest/developerguide/firewall-managing.md @@ -11 +11 @@ This section describes how to create, update, and delete your firewall and its e -When you make any changes to a firewall, including changes to any of the firewall's components, like rule groups, TLS inspection configurations, and firewall policies, Network Firewall propagates the changes everywhere that the firewall is used. Your changes are normally applied within seconds, but there might be a brief period of inconsistency when the changes have arrived in some places and not in others. For example, if you modify a rule group so that it drops an additional type of packet, for a firewall that uses the rule group, the new packet type might briefly be dropped by one firewall endpoint while still being allowed by another. +When you make any changes to a firewall, including changes to any of the firewall's components, like rule groups, TLS inspection configurations, and firewall policies, Network Firewall propagates the changes everywhere that the firewall is used. Your changes are normally applied within minutes, but there might be a brief period of inconsistency when the changes have arrived in some places and not in others. For example, if you modify a rule group so that it drops an additional type of packet, for a firewall that uses the rule group, the new packet type might briefly be dropped by one firewall endpoint while still being allowed by another.