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AWS AmazonCloudWatch documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudWatch · 2026-03-13 · Documentation low

File: AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AWS-API-Usage-Metrics.md

Summary

Changed 'outlier detection' to 'anomaly detection' terminology

Security assessment

Terminology update with no security impact.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AWS-API-Usage-Metrics.md b/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AWS-API-Usage-Metrics.md
index 7681961ad..6f7df1d11 100644
--- a//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AWS-API-Usage-Metrics.md
+++ b//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AWS-API-Usage-Metrics.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-Most APIs that support AWS CloudTrail logging also report usage metrics to CloudWatch. API usage metrics in CloudWatch allow you to proactively manage API usage by visualizing metrics in the CloudWatch console, creating custom dashboards, detecting changes in activity with CloudWatch outlier detection, and configuring alarms that alert when usage approaches a threshold.
+Most APIs that support AWS CloudTrail logging also report usage metrics to CloudWatch. API usage metrics in CloudWatch allow you to proactively manage API usage by visualizing metrics in the CloudWatch console, creating custom dashboards, detecting changes in activity with CloudWatch anomaly detection, and configuring alarms that alert when usage approaches a threshold.