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AWS directoryservice documentation change

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

File: directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ad_connector_mfa.md

Summary

Updated references from 'AWS Directory Service' to 'Directory Service' in MFA documentation

Security assessment

Changes are terminology updates without modifying MFA implementation details or security controls. The RADIUS configuration requirements and limitations remain technically unchanged.

Diff

diff --git a/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ad_connector_mfa.md b/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ad_connector_mfa.md
index 9bacedd65..cec8a8c1c 100644
--- a//directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ad_connector_mfa.md
+++ b//directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ad_connector_mfa.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-You can enable multi-factor authentication for AD Connector when you have Active Directory running on-premises or in Amazon EC2 instances. For more information about using multi-factor authentication with AWS Directory Service, see [AD Connector prerequisites](./ad_connector_getting_started.html#prereq_connector).
+You can enable multi-factor authentication for AD Connector when you have Active Directory running on-premises or in Amazon EC2 instances. For more information about using multi-factor authentication with Directory Service, see [AD Connector prerequisites](./ad_connector_getting_started.html#prereq_connector).
@@ -37 +37 @@ The IP addresses of your RADIUS server endpoints, or the IP address of your RADI
-RADIUS MFA is applicable only to authenticate access to the AWS Management Console, or to Amazon Enterprise applications and services such as WorkSpaces, Amazon Quick Suite, or Amazon Chime. It does not provide MFA to Windows workloads running on EC2 instances, or for signing into an EC2 instance. AWS Directory Service does not support RADIUS Challenge/Response authentication.
+RADIUS MFA is applicable only to authenticate access to the AWS Management Console, or to Amazon Enterprise applications and services such as WorkSpaces, Amazon Quick Suite, or Amazon Chime. It does not provide MFA to Windows workloads running on EC2 instances, or for signing into an EC2 instance. Directory Service does not support RADIUS Challenge/Response authentication.
@@ -44 +44 @@ _**Port**_
-The port that your RADIUS server is using for communications. Your on-premises network must allow inbound traffic over the default RADIUS server port (UDP:1812) from the AWS Directory Service servers.
+The port that your RADIUS server is using for communications. Your on-premises network must allow inbound traffic over the default RADIUS server port (UDP:1812) from the Directory Service servers.