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AWS whitepapers documentation change

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

File: whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/putting-the-pieces-together-ebs-volume-attachment.md

Summary

Shortened 'Elastic Load Balancing' to 'ELB' in reference documentation

Security assessment

Abbreviation change without modifying security controls around KMS or IAM sessions

Diff

diff --git a/whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/putting-the-pieces-together-ebs-volume-attachment.md b/whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/putting-the-pieces-together-ebs-volume-attachment.md
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--- a//whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/putting-the-pieces-together-ebs-volume-attachment.md
+++ b//whitepapers/latest/security-design-of-aws-nitro-system/putting-the-pieces-together-ebs-volume-attachment.md
@@ -13 +13 @@ The EC2 control plane allocates the PCIe device resources of the Nitro Card for
-Assuming that the customer IAM identity that made the `AttachVolume` command is also authorized to make a Decrypt command in AWS KMS under the expected AWS KMS key, the encrypted volume’s data key will be decrypted. The Nitro System's access to this operation is protected by [AWS KMS Grants](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/grants.html) and by IAM Forward Access Sessions. (Refer to this [explanation of IAM Forward Access Sessions](https://youtu.be/2ZeUBbZPUWs?t=1919) in the context of Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Key Management Service in a presentation by Colm MacCárthaigh, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS.) 
+Assuming that the customer IAM identity that made the `AttachVolume` command is also authorized to make a Decrypt command in AWS KMS under the expected AWS KMS key, the encrypted volume’s data key will be decrypted. The Nitro System's access to this operation is protected by [AWS KMS Grants](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/grants.html) and by IAM Forward Access Sessions. (Refer to this [explanation of IAM Forward Access Sessions](https://youtu.be/2ZeUBbZPUWs?t=1919) in the context of ELB, AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Key Management Service in a presentation by Colm MacCárthaigh, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS.)