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AWS powershell documentation change

Service: powershell · 2026-04-10 · Documentation low

File: powershell/v4/userguide/saml-pst.md

Summary

Updated SAML Technical Specifications link from http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications to https://www.oasis-open.org/standard/saml/

Security assessment

This change updates a broken or outdated URL to a current one. While the new link uses HTTPS (which is more secure than HTTP), there's no evidence this change addresses a specific security vulnerability, weakness, or incident. It's a routine documentation maintenance update.

Diff

diff --git a/powershell/v4/userguide/saml-pst.md b/powershell/v4/userguide/saml-pst.md
index fd726ad3f..b85ccd8ba 100644
--- a//powershell/v4/userguide/saml-pst.md
+++ b//powershell/v4/userguide/saml-pst.md
@@ -15 +15 @@ To let users in your organization access AWS resources, you must configure a sta
-SAML support in the AWS Tools for PowerShell lets you provide your users federated access to AWS services. SAML is an XML-based, open-standard format for transmitting user authentication and authorization data between services; in particular, between an identity provider (such as [Active Directory Federation Services](http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb897402.aspx)), and a service provider (such as AWS). For more information about SAML and how it works, see [SAML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language) on Wikipedia, or [SAML Technical Specifications](http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications) at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) website. SAML support in the AWS Tools for PowerShell is compatible with SAML 2.0.
+SAML support in the AWS Tools for PowerShell lets you provide your users federated access to AWS services. SAML is an XML-based, open-standard format for transmitting user authentication and authorization data between services; in particular, between an identity provider (such as [Active Directory Federation Services](http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb897402.aspx)), and a service provider (such as AWS). For more information about SAML and how it works, see [SAML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language) on Wikipedia, or [SAML Technical Specifications](https://www.oasis-open.org/standard/saml/) at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) website. SAML support in the AWS Tools for PowerShell is compatible with SAML 2.0.