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AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change

Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2026-07-10 · Documentation low

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/terraform-aws-provider-best-practices/introduction.md

Summary

Removed 'Objectives' and 'Target audience' sections, simplified author attribution

Security assessment

Content removal and attribution changes don't impact security documentation or address vulnerabilities.

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diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/terraform-aws-provider-best-practices/introduction.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/terraform-aws-provider-best-practices/introduction.md
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-ObjectivesTarget audience
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@@ -11,3 +9 @@ ObjectivesTarget audience
- _Michael Begin, Senior DevOps Consultant, Amazon Web Services (AWS)_
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-_August 2025_ ([document history](./doc-history.html))
+ _Michael Begin, Amazon Web Services_
@@ -32,25 +27,0 @@ This guide provides recommended best practices for using the [Terraform AWS Prov
-## Objectives
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-This guide helps you gain operational knowledge on the Terraform AWS Provider and addresses the following business goals that you can achieve by following IaC best practices around security, reliability, compliance, and developer productivity.
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-  * Improve infrastructure code quality and consistency across Terraform projects.
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-  * Accelerate developer onboarding and ability to contribute to infrastructure code.
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-  * Increase business agility through faster infrastructure changes.
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-  * Reduce errors and downtime related to infrastructure changes.
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-  * Optimize infrastructure costs by following IaC best practices.
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-  * Strengthen your overall security posture through best practice implementation.
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-## Target audience
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-The target audience for this guide includes technical leads and managers who oversee teams that use Terraform for IaC on AWS. Other potential readers include infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, and developers who actively use Terraform to manage AWS infrastructure.
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-Following these best practices will save time and help unlock the benefits of IaC for these roles.
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