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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

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

File: wellarchitected/2023-10-03/framework/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md

Summary

Changed 'Elastic Load Balancing' to 'ELB' in the list of CloudWatch metrics examples.

Security assessment

Simple terminology update without any security context. The change maintains existing security monitoring capabilities but doesn't introduce new security documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/2023-10-03/framework/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md b/wellarchitected/2023-10-03/framework/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md
index 60c1eb893..d7d63436e 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/2023-10-03/framework/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md
+++ b//wellarchitected/2023-10-03/framework/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md
@@ -44 +44 @@ AWS tool  |  Where to use
-[Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) |  Use [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) and turn on the appropriate metrics for network options. Make sure to choose the right network metric for your workload. For example, you can turn on metrics for VPC Network Address Usage, VPC NAT Gateway, AWS Transit Gateway, VPN tunnel, AWS Network Firewall, Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS Direct Connect. Continually monitoring metrics is a good practice to observe and understand your network status and usage, which helps you optimize network configuration based on your observations.   
+[Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) |  Use [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) and turn on the appropriate metrics for network options. Make sure to choose the right network metric for your workload. For example, you can turn on metrics for VPC Network Address Usage, VPC NAT Gateway, AWS Transit Gateway, VPN tunnel, AWS Network Firewall, ELB, and AWS Direct Connect. Continually monitoring metrics is a good practice to observe and understand your network status and usage, which helps you optimize network configuration based on your observations.