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AWS healthlake medium security documentation change

Service: healthlake · 2026-06-13 · Security-related medium

File: healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-authentication.md

Summary

Added note that authentication metadata (including authorization endpoints) can be updated post-creation.

Security assessment

Documents ability to update critical authentication endpoints, which relates to security maintenance (e.g., rotating endpoints after compromise). This is a security feature allowing credential management.

Diff

diff --git a/healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-authentication.md b/healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-authentication.md
index b3793e177..c9fdea37e 100644
--- a//healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-authentication.md
+++ b//healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-authentication.md
@@ -14,0 +15,2 @@ When you create a SMART on FHIR HealthLake data store, you must define the autho
+You can also update the `metadata` element (including the authorization and token endpoints) on an existing data store by using `UpdateFHIRDatastore`. For more information, see [Updating a HealthLake data store](./managing-data-stores-update.html).
+