AWS wellarchitected documentation change
Summary
Updated service name from 'ELB' to 'Elastic Load Balancing' in AWS Shield Advanced documentation
Security assessment
Change clarifies service naming without altering security content. No security vulnerability or incident is addressed. AWS Shield Advanced's DDoS protection capabilities remain unchanged.
Diff
diff --git a/wellarchitected/latest/streaming-media-lens/infrastructure-protection.md b/wellarchitected/latest/streaming-media-lens/infrastructure-protection.md index 174460196..a01e28255 100644 --- a//wellarchitected/latest/streaming-media-lens/infrastructure-protection.md +++ b//wellarchitected/latest/streaming-media-lens/infrastructure-protection.md @@ -43 +43 @@ Protect your content origin layer from distributed denial of service (DDoS) atta -A DDoS attack is when multiple systems intentionally flood your resources, which can render your content origin unavailable or hidden to your viewers. It is important to use a DDoS protection tool, such as AWS Shield, to protect your resources. AWS Shield protects AWS resources such as **Amazon CloudFront** distributions and **Amazon Route 53** so that your content can be located and reached globally. **AWS Shield Advanced** protects resources built upon services such as **ELB, Amazon EC2** , and **AWS Global Accelerator** against common and most frequently occurring infrastructure (layer 3 and 4) attacks like SYN/UDP floods, reflection attacks, and others to support high availability of your applications on AWS. If you need to protect resources that you are hosting privately, put a CDN, such as a CloudFront distribution, in front of it. +A DDoS attack is when multiple systems intentionally flood your resources, which can render your content origin unavailable or hidden to your viewers. It is important to use a DDoS protection tool, such as AWS Shield, to protect your resources. AWS Shield protects AWS resources such as **Amazon CloudFront** distributions and **Amazon Route 53** so that your content can be located and reached globally. **AWS Shield Advanced** protects resources built upon services such as **Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EC2** , and **AWS Global Accelerator** against common and most frequently occurring infrastructure (layer 3 and 4) attacks like SYN/UDP floods, reflection attacks, and others to support high availability of your applications on AWS. If you need to protect resources that you are hosting privately, put a CDN, such as a CloudFront distribution, in front of it.