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AWS waf documentation change

Service: waf · 2026-04-04 · Documentation low

File: waf/latest/developerguide/shield-metrics.md

Summary

Added documentation for a new DDoSAttackRequests metric and updated the list of namespaces for the DDoSDetected metric.

Security assessment

The change documents a new metric for monitoring DDoS attacks and updates the namespaces for an existing metric, which are part of AWS Shield's security monitoring features. However, there is no indication of a security issue being fixed.

Diff

diff --git a/waf/latest/developerguide/shield-metrics.md b/waf/latest/developerguide/shield-metrics.md
index 85ae50000..8cda97efc 100644
--- a//waf/latest/developerguide/shield-metrics.md
+++ b//waf/latest/developerguide/shield-metrics.md
@@ -64,0 +65 @@ Detection metrics Metric | Description
+`DDoSAttackRequests` | The number of requests observed during a DDoS event for a particular Amazon Resource Name (ARN). This metric is available only for Anti-DDoS Managed Rules (AMR) DDoS events. This metic is in the AWS/WAFV2 namespace and has a non-zero value during an event.Units: Requests  
@@ -73,0 +75,2 @@ Shield Advanced posts the `DDoSDetected` metric with no other dimensions. The re
+  * AWS/WAFV2
+