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AWS AmazonECS documentation change

Service: AmazonECS · 2026-06-28 · Documentation low

File: AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth-container-instances.md

Summary

Replaced 'as shown above' with 'as shown in the preceding example' and 'In the above example' with 'In the preceding example'.

Security assessment

Linguistic improvements to reference examples. No modifications to authentication mechanisms, security protocols, or vulnerability disclosures.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth-container-instances.md b/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth-container-instances.md
index ae46e16ce..18de2c3a5 100644
--- a//AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth-container-instances.md
+++ b//AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/private-auth-container-instances.md
@@ -54 +54 @@ Output:
-Newer versions of Docker create a configuration file as shown above with an outer `auths` object. The Amazon ECS agent only supports `dockercfg` authentication data that is in the below format, without the `auths` object. If you have the **jq** utility installed, you can extract this data with the following command: **cat ~/.docker/config.json | jq .auths**
+Newer versions of Docker create a configuration file as shown in the preceding example with an outer `auths` object. The Amazon ECS agent only supports `dockercfg` authentication data that is in the following format, without the `auths` object. If you have the **jq** utility installed, you can extract this data with the following command: **cat ~/.docker/config.json | jq .auths**
@@ -69 +69 @@ Output:
-In the above example, the following environment variables should be added to the environment variable file (`/etc/ecs/ecs.config` for the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI) that the Amazon ECS container agent loads at runtime. If you are not using an Amazon ECS-optimized AMI and you are starting the agent manually with **docker run** , specify the environment variable file with the `--env-file `path_to_env_file`` option when you start the agent.
+In the preceding example, the following environment variables should be added to the environment variable file (`/etc/ecs/ecs.config` for the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI) that the Amazon ECS container agent loads at runtime. If you are not using an Amazon ECS-optimized AMI and you are starting the agent manually with **docker run** , specify the environment variable file with the `--env-file `path_to_env_file`` option when you start the agent.