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AWS waf documentation change

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

File: waf/latest/developerguide/security_iam_service-with-iam.md

Summary

Updated documentation to replace 'AWS CloudFormation' with 'CloudFormation' in a sentence about resource sharing limitations

Security assessment

The change is a minor terminology update (removing redundant 'AWS' prefix from CloudFormation). No security implications or security feature additions are present in this documentation edit.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/security_iam_service-with-iam.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/security_iam_service-with-iam.md
index 38e1d54d7..28e1ec467 100644
--- a//waf/latest/developerguide/security_iam_service-with-iam.md
+++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/security_iam_service-with-iam.md
@@ -51 +51 @@ To enable cross-account access, you can specify an entire account or IAM entitie
-AWS WAF uses resource based policies to support the sharing of rule groups across accounts. You share a rule group that you own with another AWS account by providing the resource-based policy settings to the AWS WAF API call `PutPermissionPolicy` or to an equivalent CLI or SDK call. For additional information, including examples and links to documentation for the other available languages, see [PutPermissionPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/APIReference/API_PutPermissionPolicy.html) in the AWS WAF API Reference. This functionality isn't available through other means, such as the console or AWS CloudFormation. 
+AWS WAF uses resource based policies to support the sharing of rule groups across accounts. You share a rule group that you own with another AWS account by providing the resource-based policy settings to the AWS WAF API call `PutPermissionPolicy` or to an equivalent CLI or SDK call. For additional information, including examples and links to documentation for the other available languages, see [PutPermissionPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/APIReference/API_PutPermissionPolicy.html) in the AWS WAF API Reference. This functionality isn't available through other means, such as the console or CloudFormation.