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AWS elasticloadbalancing documentation change

Service: elasticloadbalancing · 2026-01-25 · Documentation low

File: elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/rule-action-types.md

Summary

Updated terminology from 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing' when describing cookie generation for CORS requests

Security assessment

Change only updates service name terminology without modifying security-related content about SameSite cookies. No vulnerability or security enhancement is addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/rule-action-types.md b/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/rule-action-types.md
index 0ebc08ef6..265816801 100644
--- a//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/rule-action-types.md
+++ b//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/rule-action-types.md
@@ -94 +94 @@ Application Load Balancers do not support cookie values that are URL encoded.
-With CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) requests, some browsers require `SameSite=None; Secure` to enable stickiness. In this case, ELB generates a second cookie, AWSALBTGCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus this `SameSite` attribute. Clients receive both cookies.
+With CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) requests, some browsers require `SameSite=None; Secure` to enable stickiness. In this case, Elastic Load Balancing generates a second cookie, AWSALBTGCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus this `SameSite` attribute. Clients receive both cookies.