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AWS AmazonCloudWatch documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudWatch · 2025-11-22 · Documentation low

File: AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/DocumentHistory.md

Summary

Updated terminology (ELB instead of Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling)

Security assessment

Standardizes service name abbreviations without security implications. No evidence of security context changes.

Diff

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@@ -10,0 +11,6 @@ Change| Description| Date
+Updated CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess policy| CloudWatch updated [CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch.html#managed-policies-cloudwatch-CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess) to include Resource Explorer permissions to support uninstrumented service functionalities in Application Signals. | November 20, 2025  
+Updated CloudWatchFullAccessV2 policy| CloudWatch updated [CloudWatchFullAccessV2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch.html#managed-policies-cloudwatch-CloudWatchFullAccessV2) to include Resource Explorer permissions to support uninstrumented service functionalities in Application Signals. | November 20, 2025  
+Updated CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy policy| CloudWatch updated the policy to include `resource-explorer-2:Search` and `cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel` to enable new Application Signals features. For more information, see [CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/using-service-linked-roles.html#service-linked-role-signals).| November 20, 2025  
+Updated CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess policy| CloudWatch updated [CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch.html#managed-policies-cloudwatch-CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess) to include new Application Signals operation and OAM and Resource Explorer permissions to support change events, cross account and uninstrumented service functionalities in Application Signals. | November 20, 2025  
+Updated CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess policy| CloudWatch updated [CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch.html#managed-policies-cloudwatch-CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess) to include OAM and Resource Explorer permissions to support cross account and uninstrumented service functionalities in Application Signals. | November 20, 2025  
+CloudWatch updated AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicy managed policy with Amazon Q permissions| CloudWatch updated the **AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicy** managed policy to include Amazon Q integration permissions. These permissions enable users to interact with CloudWatch investigations incident reports through Amazon Q's conversational interface. For more information see, [AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/auth-and-access-control-cw.html#managed-policies-QInvestigations-AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicy).| November 17, 2025  
@@ -32 +38 @@ Updated AIOpsAssistantPolicy policy| CloudWatch updated the AIOpsAssistantPolicy
-Update managed policy| CloudWatch updated the **AIOpsOperatorAccess** policy to permit validation of investigation groups across accounts. For more information, see [AIOpsOperatorAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch-QInvestigations.html#managed-policies-QInvestigations-AIOpsOperatorAccess.html).| June 13, 2025  
+Update managed policy| CloudWatch updated the **AIOpsOperatorAccess** policy to permit validation of investigation groups across accounts. For more information, see [AIOpsOperatorAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/managed-policies-cloudwatch-QInvestigations.html#managed-policies-QInvestigations-AIOpsOperatorAccess.html).| June 13, 2025  
@@ -34,2 +40,2 @@ Update managed policy| CloudWatch updated the **AIOpsOperatorAccess** policy to
-Added functionality| You can now monitor Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Databases at the instance level from the Database Instance Dashboard. For more information, see [Monitoring Aurora Limitless databases with Database Insights](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/database-insights-limitless.html).| May 22, 2025  
-Added functionality| You can now enable Application Signals for your applications on an existing Amazon EKS cluster using CloudWatch Observability add-on Auto monitor advanced configuration. For more information, see [Enable Application Signals on an Amazon EKS cluster using the CloudWatch Observability add-on advanced configuration](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Application-Signals-Enable-EKS.html).| May 19, 2025  
+Added functionality| You can now monitor Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Databases at the instance level from the Database Instance Dashboard. For more information, see [Monitoring Aurora Limitless databases with Database Insights](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/database-insights-limitless.html).| May 22, 2025  
+Added functionality| You can now enable Application Signals for your applications on an existing Amazon EKS cluster using CloudWatch Observability add-on Auto monitor advanced configuration. For more information, see [Enable Application Signals on an Amazon EKS cluster using the CloudWatch Observability add-on advanced configuration](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Application-Signals-Enable-EKS.html).| May 19, 2025  
@@ -185 +191 @@ Added metrics for AWS Key Management Service |  Added metrics for AWS Key Manage
-Added metrics for the new Application Load Balancers supported by Elastic Load Balancing |  Added metrics for Application Load Balancers. | August 11, 2016  
+Added metrics for the new Application Load Balancers supported by ELB |  Added metrics for Application Load Balancers. | August 11, 2016  
@@ -207 +213 @@ New billing alerts |  You can now monitor your AWS charges using Amazon CloudWat
-New metrics |  You can now access six new Elastic Load Balancing metrics that provide counts of various HTTP response codes.  | October 19, 2011  
+New metrics |  You can now access six new ELB metrics that provide counts of various HTTP response codes.  | October 19, 2011  
@@ -212 +218 @@ Updated metrics retention |  Amazon CloudWatch now retains the history of an ala
-New feature |  Added ability to send Amazon Simple Notification Service or Auto Scaling notifications when a metric has crossed a threshold. For more information, see [Alarms](./cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchAlarms). | December 2, 2010  
+New feature |  Added ability to send Amazon Simple Notification Service or Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling notifications when a metric has crossed a threshold. For more information, see [Alarms](./cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchAlarms). | December 2, 2010