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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-fine-grained-authorization.md

Summary

Added note that fine-grained authorization can be enabled/disabled post-creation.

Security assessment

Documents runtime modification of authorization controls, a security feature that allows dynamic adjustment of access policies without recreating resources.

Diff

diff --git a/healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-fine-grained-authorization.md b/healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-fine-grained-authorization.md
index e19267aa3..9cd8e3327 100644
--- a//healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-fine-grained-authorization.md
+++ b//healthlake/latest/devguide/reference-smart-on-fhir-fine-grained-authorization.md
@@ -10,0 +11,2 @@
+You can also enable or disable fine-grained authorization on an existing data store by updating `FineGrainedAuthorizationEnabled` with `UpdateFHIRDatastore`. For more information, see [Updating a HealthLake data store](./managing-data-stores-update.html).
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