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AWS app-mesh: Update default retry policy documentation

Service: app-mesh · 2026-08-19 · Documentation low

File: app-mesh/latest/userguide/best-practices.md

Summary

Clarified that App Mesh automatically applies default retry policy to all routes.

Security assessment

Documentation update about service behavior with no security impact.

Evidence

App Mesh automatically creates a default retry policy similar to the previous policy for each route you create. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).

Diff

diff --git a/app-mesh/latest/userguide/best-practices.md b/app-mesh/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
index 5b90e32c7..92506b9ef 100644
--- a//app-mesh/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
+++ b//app-mesh/latest/userguide/best-practices.md
@@ -43 +43 @@ Other retry events need to be considered on a case-by-case basis as they may not
-If you implemented a route on or after July 29, 2020 and didn't specify a retry policy, then App Mesh may have automatically created a default retry policy similar to the previous policy for each route you created on or after July 29, 2020. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).
+App Mesh automatically creates a default retry policy similar to the previous policy for each route you create. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).