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AWS managedservices documentation change

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

File: managedservices/latest/userguide/aws-shield.md

Summary

Updated Elastic Load Balancing abbreviation from 'ELB' to full name 'Elastic Load Balancing' in AWS Shield Advanced documentation

Security assessment

Terminology update without substantive security content modification. Continues to describe existing DDoS protections without new security features or vulnerability references.

Diff

diff --git a/managedservices/latest/userguide/aws-shield.md b/managedservices/latest/userguide/aws-shield.md
index dd1f1355a..e519b5c32 100644
--- a//managedservices/latest/userguide/aws-shield.md
+++ b//managedservices/latest/userguide/aws-shield.md
@@ -15 +15 @@ For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications runn
-In addition to the network and transport layer protections that come with AWS Shield 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 Shield Response Team (SRT) and protection against DDoS related spikes in your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53 charges.
+In addition to the network and transport layer protections that come with AWS Shield 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 Shield Response Team (SRT) and protection against DDoS related spikes in your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (Elastic Load Balancing), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53 charges.