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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

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

File: wellarchitected/latest/financial-services-industry-lens/key-aws-services-rel.md

Summary

Updated service name from 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)' in AWS Shield Advanced description

Security assessment

Change only expands an acronym for clarity without altering security content. AWS Shield's DDoS protection capabilities remain described identically.

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/latest/financial-services-industry-lens/key-aws-services-rel.md b/wellarchitected/latest/financial-services-industry-lens/key-aws-services-rel.md
index fee6446a2..0c21cc61e 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/latest/financial-services-industry-lens/key-aws-services-rel.md
+++ b//wellarchitected/latest/financial-services-industry-lens/key-aws-services-rel.md
@@ -25 +25 @@
-    * **[ AWS Shield and AWS Shield Advanced](https://aws.amazon.com/shield/):** AWS Shield is a managed service that provides protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) exploits for workloads running on AWS. AWS Shield Advanced provides additional protections against more sophisticated and larger exploits for your workloads running on Amazon EC2, ELB (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Route 53. 
+    * **[ AWS Shield and AWS Shield Advanced](https://aws.amazon.com/shield/):** AWS Shield is a managed service that provides protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) exploits for workloads running on AWS. AWS Shield Advanced provides additional protections against more sophisticated and larger exploits for your workloads running on Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Route 53.