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AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change

Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2025-11-19 · Documentation low

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/designing-control-tower-landing-zone/auditing.md

Summary

Updated references from 'AWS CloudFormation' to 'CloudFormation' in documentation links and text for consistency

Security assessment

The changes are purely cosmetic branding updates (removing redundant 'AWS' prefix from CloudFormation references). No security-related content was added or modified beyond terminology standardization.

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diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/designing-control-tower-landing-zone/auditing.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/designing-control-tower-landing-zone/auditing.md
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--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/designing-control-tower-landing-zone/auditing.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/designing-control-tower-landing-zone/auditing.md
@@ -33,2 +33,2 @@ Security and compliance monitoring (AWS Security Hub) | Brings together security
-Root user activity | Sends notifications when an account is accessed by the root user through the AWS Management Console. | We recommend that you set up an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to monitor the `userIdentity` element in CloudTrail for root logins. | If there is root user account activity, CloudWatch Events writes to an SNS topic.For more information and an AWS CloudFormation script that you can use to set up this monitoring, see [How do I create an EventBridge event rule to notify me that my AWS root user account was used?](https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/root-user-account-eventbridge-rule) in the AWS Knowledge Center.  
-Billing alerts | Sends billing alerts if the cost and usage of AWS services exceeds your budget threshold. | We recommend that you set up a monthly customized budget that specifies a threshold that can be tracked by [AWS Budgets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html). | AWS Budgets generates an alert by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) if the budget threshold is exceeded.You can use AWS CloudFormation stacks and an AWS CloudFormation template to set notifications at the organization or OU level. You can also choose to automatically apply this check to new accounts. For more information, see the [AWS::Budgets::Budget resource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-budgets-budget.html) in the AWS CloudFormation documentation.  
+Root user activity | Sends notifications when an account is accessed by the root user through the AWS Management Console. | We recommend that you set up an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to monitor the `userIdentity` element in CloudTrail for root logins. | If there is root user account activity, CloudWatch Events writes to an SNS topic.For more information and an CloudFormation script that you can use to set up this monitoring, see [How do I create an EventBridge event rule to notify me that my AWS root user account was used?](https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/root-user-account-eventbridge-rule) in the AWS Knowledge Center.  
+Billing alerts | Sends billing alerts if the cost and usage of AWS services exceeds your budget threshold. | We recommend that you set up a monthly customized budget that specifies a threshold that can be tracked by [AWS Budgets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/budgets-managing-costs.html). | AWS Budgets generates an alert by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) if the budget threshold is exceeded.You can use CloudFormation stacks and an CloudFormation template to set notifications at the organization or OU level. You can also choose to automatically apply this check to new accounts. For more information, see the [AWS::Budgets::Budget resource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-budgets-budget.html) in the CloudFormation documentation.