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AWS elasticloadbalancing documentation change

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

File: elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.md

Summary

Added clarification that LowReputationPacketsDropped and LowReputationRequestsDenied metrics are recorded when requests are blocked by resource-level DDoS protection

Security assessment

The change documents existing DDoS protection capabilities but does not indicate any newly discovered vulnerability or security incident remediation. It enhances visibility into security controls.

Diff

diff --git a/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.md b/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.md
index eadcf90a4..c4bafb872 100644
--- a//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.md
+++ b//elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.md
@@ -207 +207 @@ Metric | Description
-`LowReputationPacketsDropped` |  The number of packets dropped from known malicious sources. **Reporting criteria** : There is a nonzero value **Statistics** : The only meaningful statistic is `Sum`.
+`LowReputationPacketsDropped` |  The number of packets dropped from known malicious sources. This metric is recorded when a request is blocked by resource-level DDoS protection. **Reporting criteria** : There is a nonzero value **Statistics** : The only meaningful statistic is `Sum`.
@@ -215 +215 @@ Metric | Description
-`LowReputationRequestsDenied` |  The number of HTTP requests denied with an HTTP 403 response. **Reporting criteria** : There is a nonzero value **Statistics** : The only meaningful statistic is `Sum`.
+`LowReputationRequestsDenied` |  The number of HTTP requests denied with an HTTP 403 response. This metric is recorded when a request is blocked by resource-level DDoS protection. **Reporting criteria** : There is a nonzero value **Statistics** : The only meaningful statistic is `Sum`.