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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

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

File: wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md

Summary

Updated 'Elastic Load Balancing' to 'ELB' in CloudWatch metrics list

Security assessment

Abbreviation change in monitoring context doesn't affect security recommendations or introduce new security features

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md b/wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md
index 8fbfe2169..efb82bc66 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_networking_optimize_network_configuration_based_on_metrics.md
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@@ -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.