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AWS AmazonCloudWatch documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudWatch · 2026-04-19 · Documentation low

File: AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/permissions-reference-cw.md

Summary

Added documentation for four new CloudWatch API operations and their required IAM permissions: GetOTelEnrichment, ListTagsForResource, StartOTelEnrichment, and StopOTelEnrichment.

Security assessment

This change adds documentation for new IAM permissions related to OpenTelemetry enrichment and resource tagging. While these are security-related permissions (access control), there is no evidence in the diff that this addresses a specific security vulnerability or incident. The changes appear to be routine documentation updates for new features.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/permissions-reference-cw.md b/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/permissions-reference-cw.md
index de287baf0..55d13836d 100644
--- a//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/permissions-reference-cw.md
+++ b//AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/permissions-reference-cw.md
@@ -54,0 +55 @@ CloudWatch API operations | Required permissions (API actions)
+[GetOTelEnrichment](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_GetOTelEnrichment.html) |  `cloudwatch:GetOTelEnrichment` Required to retrieve the status of OpenTelemetry enrichment for vended metrics.  
@@ -58,0 +60 @@ ListEntitiesForMetric (CloudWatch console-only permission) |  `cloudwatch:ListEn
+[ListTagsForResource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_ListTagsForResource.html) |  `cloudwatch:ListTagsForResource` Required to list the tags associated with a CloudWatch resource.  
@@ -65,0 +68 @@ ListEntitiesForMetric (CloudWatch console-only permission) |  `cloudwatch:ListEn
+[StartOTelEnrichment](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_StartOTelEnrichment.html) |  `cloudwatch:StartOTelEnrichment` Required to enable OpenTelemetry enrichment for vended metrics, making them queryable via PromQL.  
@@ -66,0 +70 @@ ListEntitiesForMetric (CloudWatch console-only permission) |  `cloudwatch:ListEn
+[StopOTelEnrichment](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_StopOTelEnrichment.html) |  `cloudwatch:StopOTelEnrichment` Required to disable OpenTelemetry enrichment for vended metrics.