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AWS whitepapers documentation change

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

File: whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.md

Summary

Updated terminology from 'Elastic Load Balancing' to 'ELB' abbreviation in multiple sections related to AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Shield Advanced documentation

Security assessment

The changes are purely terminological updates to use the 'ELB' abbreviation consistently. No security vulnerabilities, mitigations, or new security features are introduced. The content still describes the same security services (certificate management and DDoS protection) without substantive changes to security guidance.

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diff --git a/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.md b/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.md
index 6143ce274..b88229830 100644
--- a//whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.md
+++ b//whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.md
@@ -138 +138 @@ You can get started quickly in the AWS Management Console. Just select a prebuil
-With AWS Certificate Manager, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on ACM-integrated AWS resources, such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront distributions, and APIs on API Gateway, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals. It also enables you to create private certificates for your internal resources and manage the certificate lifecycle centrally. Public and private certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager for use with ACM-integrated services are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application. 
+With AWS Certificate Manager, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on ACM-integrated AWS resources, such as ELB, Amazon CloudFront distributions, and APIs on API Gateway, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals. It also enables you to create private certificates for your internal resources and manage the certificate lifecycle centrally. Public and private certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager for use with ACM-integrated services are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application. 
@@ -205 +205 @@ All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard
-For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 resources, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. In addition to the network and transport layer protections that come with Standard, AWS Shield Advanced provides additional detection and mitigation against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks, near real-time visibility into attacks, and integration with AWS WAF, a web application firewall. AWS Shield Advanced also gives you 24x7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) and protection against DDoS related spikes in your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 charges. 
+For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), ELB (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 resources, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. In addition to the network and transport layer protections that come with Standard, AWS Shield Advanced provides additional detection and mitigation against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks, near real-time visibility into attacks, and integration with AWS WAF, a web application firewall. AWS Shield Advanced also gives you 24x7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) and protection against DDoS related spikes in your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), ELB (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 charges. 
@@ -207 +207 @@ For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications runn
-AWS Shield Advanced is available globally on all Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 edge locations. You can protect your web applications hosted anywhere in the world by deploying Amazon CloudFront in front of your application. Your origin servers can be Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), or a custom server outside of AWS. You can also enable AWS Shield Advanced directly on an Elastic IP or Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in the following AWS Regions: Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, Montreal, São Paulo, Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Milan, and Cape Town.
+AWS Shield Advanced is available globally on all Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 edge locations. You can protect your web applications hosted anywhere in the world by deploying Amazon CloudFront in front of your application. Your origin servers can be Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), ELB (ELB), or a custom server outside of AWS. You can also enable AWS Shield Advanced directly on an Elastic IP or ELB (ELB) in the following AWS Regions: Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, Montreal, São Paulo, Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Milan, and Cape Town.