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AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change

Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2026-02-13 · Documentation medium

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-validate-and-deploy-iam-policies-and-roles-in-an-aws-account-by-using-codepipeline-iam-access-analyzer-and-aws-cloudformation-macros.md

Summary

Replaced 'Automatically rotate IAM user access keys' with 'Automatically remediate unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instances and clusters'

Security assessment

Swaps security pattern reference from key rotation to RDS encryption remediation. Documents security feature (RDS encryption) but no evidence of addressing a specific vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-validate-and-deploy-iam-policies-and-roles-in-an-aws-account-by-using-codepipeline-iam-access-analyzer-and-aws-cloudformation-macros.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-validate-and-deploy-iam-policies-and-roles-in-an-aws-account-by-using-codepipeline-iam-access-analyzer-and-aws-cloudformation-macros.md
index 92a24dc25..565a10631 100644
--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-validate-and-deploy-iam-policies-and-roles-in-an-aws-account-by-using-codepipeline-iam-access-analyzer-and-aws-cloudformation-macros.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-validate-and-deploy-iam-policies-and-roles-in-an-aws-account-by-using-codepipeline-iam-access-analyzer-and-aws-cloudformation-macros.md
@@ -172 +172 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Automatically rotate IAM user access keys
+Automatically remediate unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instances and clusters