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AWS verifiedpermissions documentation change

Service: verifiedpermissions · 2026-03-25 · Documentation low

File: verifiedpermissions/latest/userguide/policy-templates.md

Summary

Added documentation about optional policy template names, including naming conventions and an example CLI command using a policy template name.

Security assessment

This change documents a feature for using friendly names for policy templates. It does not address any security issues or describe security features.

Diff

diff --git a/verifiedpermissions/latest/userguide/policy-templates.md b/verifiedpermissions/latest/userguide/policy-templates.md
index ff3672e12..b2f7459c8 100644
--- a//verifiedpermissions/latest/userguide/policy-templates.md
+++ b//verifiedpermissions/latest/userguide/policy-templates.md
@@ -8,0 +9,7 @@ In Verified Permissions, policy templates are policies with placeholders for the
+You can optionally assign a policy template name to a policy template. Policy template names must be unique within the policy store and prefixed with `name/`. You can use a policy template name in place of the policy template ID in control plane operations that accept a `policyTemplateId` parameter. Only `GetPolicyTemplate` and `ListPolicyTemplates` return the name in the output. The following example uses a policy template name to retrieve a policy template with `GetPolicyTemplate`.
+    
+    
+    $ aws verifiedpermissions get-policy-template \
+        --policy-template-id name/example-policy-template \
+        --policy-store-id PSEXAMPLEabcdefg111111
+