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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

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

File: wellarchitected/2023-04-10/framework/perf_select_network_optimize.md

Summary

Updated service name from 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing' in the list of CloudWatch metrics examples

Security assessment

Change only expands an acronym for clarity without altering security content. No evidence of addressing vulnerabilities or security incidents. Monitoring recommendations remain unchanged.

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@@ -48 +48 @@ Monitoring traffic to and from VPCs, subnets, or network interfaces is crucial t
-  6. Use [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) and turn on the appropriate metrics for network options. Make sure to choose the right network metric for your workload. For example, you can turn on metrics for VPC Network Address Usage, VPC NAT Gateway, AWS Transit Gateway, VPN tunnel, AWS Network Firewall, ELB, and AWS Direct Connect. Continually monitoring metrics is a good practice to observe and understand your network status and usage, and helps you optimize network configuration based on your observations. 
+  6. Use [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html) and turn on the appropriate metrics for network options. Make sure to choose the right network metric for your workload. For example, you can turn on metrics for VPC Network Address Usage, VPC NAT Gateway, AWS Transit Gateway, VPN tunnel, AWS Network Firewall, Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS Direct Connect. Continually monitoring metrics is a good practice to observe and understand your network status and usage, and helps you optimize network configuration based on your observations.