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AWS greengrass documentation change

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

File: greengrass/v2/developerguide/device-tester-for-greengrass-ug.md

Summary

Changed section title from 'Security best practices' to 'Set up AWS IoT Greengrass V2 core devices as non-root'

Security assessment

This change emphasizes running Greengrass as non-root, which is a security best practice that reduces attack surface by limiting privileges. However, there's no evidence of a specific security vulnerability being addressed - it's a documentation improvement about security posture.

Diff

diff --git a/greengrass/v2/developerguide/device-tester-for-greengrass-ug.md b/greengrass/v2/developerguide/device-tester-for-greengrass-ug.md
index 6e21ba80d..db45b0d1e 100644
--- a//greengrass/v2/developerguide/device-tester-for-greengrass-ug.md
+++ b//greengrass/v2/developerguide/device-tester-for-greengrass-ug.md
@@ -46 +46 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Security best practices
+Set up AWS IoT Greengrass V2 core devices as non-root