AWS waf documentation change

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

File: waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-resiliency-example-web.md

Summary

Updated 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing' in architectural diagram caption

Security assessment

Terminology standardization without security impact

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-resiliency-example-web.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-resiliency-example-web.md
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@@ -21 +21 @@ The following reference diagram depicts this DDoS resilient architecture for a w
-![The diagram shows a rectangle titled AWS cloud, with a group of users to its left. Inside the cloud rectangle are two other rectangles, side by side. The left rectangle is titled AWS Shield Advanced and the right rectangle is titled VPC. The left, AWS Shield Advanced triangle contains three AWS icons, stacked vertically. From top to bottom, the icons are Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS WAF. The icon for CloudFront has arrows that go to and from the icon for AWS WAF. The user group has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that splits to point to the icons for Route 53 and CloudFront. To the right of the Shield Advanced rectangle, the VPC rectangle contains two icons that are side by side. From left to right, these icons are ELB and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The CloudFront icon has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that goes to the ELB icon. The ELB icon has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that goes to the Amazon EC2 icon. So user requests are sent to Route 53 and CloudFront. CloudFront interacts with AWS WAF and also sends requests on to the load balancer, which in turn sends requests on the Amazon EC2.](/images/waf/latest/developerguide/images/shield-resilient-web-app-arch.png)
+![The diagram shows a rectangle titled AWS cloud, with a group of users to its left. Inside the cloud rectangle are two other rectangles, side by side. The left rectangle is titled AWS Shield Advanced and the right rectangle is titled VPC. The left, AWS Shield Advanced triangle contains three AWS icons, stacked vertically. From top to bottom, the icons are Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and AWS WAF. The icon for CloudFront has arrows that go to and from the icon for AWS WAF. The user group has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that splits to point to the icons for Route 53 and CloudFront. To the right of the Shield Advanced rectangle, the VPC rectangle contains two icons that are side by side. From left to right, these icons are Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The CloudFront icon has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that goes to the Elastic Load Balancing icon. The Elastic Load Balancing icon has an arrow coming out horizontally to its right that goes to the Amazon EC2 icon. So user requests are sent to Route 53 and CloudFront. CloudFront interacts with AWS WAF and also sends requests on to the load balancer, which in turn sends requests on the Amazon EC2.](/images/waf/latest/developerguide/images/shield-resilient-web-app-arch.png)