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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

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

File: wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_planning_network_topology_ha_conn_users.md

Summary

Standardized 'Elastic Load Balancing' references to 'ELB' and updated links

Security assessment

Changes are purely terminological (abbreviation standardization) and URL text updates. Existing security-related integrations (e.g., AWS WAF) are mentioned but not modified. No new security content added.

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_planning_network_topology_ha_conn_users.md b/wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_planning_network_topology_ha_conn_users.md
index 2bd6e226c..8eae411fc 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_planning_network_topology_ha_conn_users.md
+++ b//wellarchitected/2022-03-31/framework/rel_planning_network_topology_ha_conn_users.md
@@ -11 +11 @@ These endpoints and the routing to them must be highly available. To achieve thi
-Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) all provide highly available public endpoints. You might also choose to evaluate AWS Marketplace software appliances for load balancing and proxying. 
+Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and ELB (ELB) all provide highly available public endpoints. You might also choose to evaluate AWS Marketplace software appliances for load balancing and proxying. 
@@ -15 +15 @@ Consumers of the service your workload provides, whether they are end-users or o
-Elastic Load Balancing provides load balancing across Availability Zones, performs Layer 4 (TCP) or Layer 7 (http/https) routing, integrates with AWS WAF, and integrates with AWS Auto Scaling to help create a self-healing infrastructure and absorb increases in traffic while releasing resources when traffic decreases. 
+ELB provides load balancing across Availability Zones, performs Layer 4 (TCP) or Layer 7 (http/https) routing, integrates with AWS WAF, and integrates with AWS Auto Scaling to help create a self-healing infrastructure and absorb increases in traffic while releasing resources when traffic decreases. 
@@ -17 +17 @@ Elastic Load Balancing provides load balancing across Availability Zones, perfor
-Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) service that connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets–and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. 
+Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) service that connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS such as Amazon EC2 instances, ELB load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets–and can also be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. 
@@ -40 +40 @@ Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks risk shutting out legitimate traffi
-Ensure that you have highly available connectivity for users of the workload Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) all provide highly available public facing endpoints. You may also choose to evaluate AWS Marketplace software appliances for load-balancing and proxying. 
+Ensure that you have highly available connectivity for users of the workload Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and ELB (ELB) all provide highly available public facing endpoints. You may also choose to evaluate AWS Marketplace software appliances for load-balancing and proxying. 
@@ -62 +62 @@ Ensure that you have highly available connectivity for users of the workload Ama
-    * Use Elastic Load Balancing. 
+    * Use ELB. 
@@ -64 +64 @@ Ensure that you have highly available connectivity for users of the workload Ama
-      * [What is Elastic Load Balancing?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html)
+      * [What is ELB?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html)
@@ -99 +99 @@ Ensure that you have highly available connectivity for users of the workload Ama
-  * [What is Elastic Load Balancing?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html)
+  * [What is ELB?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html)