AWS appconfig documentation change

Service: appconfig · 2026-03-28 · Documentation low

File: appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-creating-deployment-strategy.md

Summary

Updated deployment strategy description to include entity-based gradual deployments and added note about AWS AppConfig Agent version 2.0.136060+ supporting user/segment-based deployments with session consistency

Security assessment

This change documents a new feature (entity-based gradual deployments) that provides session consistency for users/segments during rollouts. While this could indirectly improve security by enabling more controlled feature rollouts, there's no evidence of addressing a specific security vulnerability or weakness. The change is primarily about deployment methodology and feature availability.

Diff

diff --git a/appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-creating-deployment-strategy.md b/appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-creating-deployment-strategy.md
index 27f1eecbc..9c6a355a0 100644
--- a//appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-creating-deployment-strategy.md
+++ b//appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-creating-deployment-strategy.md
@@ -7 +7,7 @@
-A deployment strategy enables you to slowly release changes to production environments over minutes or hours. An AWS AppConfig deployment strategy defines the following important aspects of a configuration deployment.
+A deployment strategy enables you to slowly release changes to all targets or specific segments over minutes or hours—either session based or along your own target dimension by leveraging entity-based deployments.
+
+###### Note
+
+AWS AppConfig Agent (version 2.0.136060 or later) supports deploying feature flag or free-form configuration data to specific segments or individual users during a gradual rollout. Entity-based gradual deployments ensure that once a user or segment receives a configuration version, they continue to receive that same version throughout the deployment period, regardless of which compute resource serves their requests. For more information, see [Using AWS AppConfig Agent for user- or entity-based gradual deployments](./appconfig-agent-how-to-use.html#appconfig-entity-based-gradual-deployments).
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+An AWS AppConfig deployment strategy defines the following important aspects of a configuration deployment.
@@ -42,0 +49,4 @@ You can choose a predefined strategy included with AWS AppConfig or create your
+###### Note
+
+AWS AppConfig Agent (version 2.0.136060 or later) supports deploying feature flag or free-form configuration data to specific segments or individual users during a gradual rollout. Entity-based gradual deployments ensure that once a user or segment receives a configuration version, they continue to receive that same version throughout the deployment period, regardless of which compute resource serves their requests. For more information, see [Using AWS AppConfig Agent for user- or entity-based gradual deployments](./appconfig-agent-how-to-use.html#appconfig-entity-based-gradual-deployments).
+