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AWS app-mesh: Updated default retry policy documentation

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

File: app-mesh/latest/userguide/virtual_services.md

Summary

Clarified that App Mesh always creates default Envoy route retry policies.

Security assessment

Documentation clarification about default behavior without security implications.

Evidence

+App Mesh automatically creates a default Envoy route retry policy for each virtual node provider that you define, even though you can't define such a policy through the App Mesh API. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).

Diff

diff --git a/app-mesh/latest/userguide/virtual_services.md b/app-mesh/latest/userguide/virtual_services.md
index f173ca8bd..9edbe8bab 100644
--- a//app-mesh/latest/userguide/virtual_services.md
+++ b//app-mesh/latest/userguide/virtual_services.md
@@ -42 +42 @@ AWS Management Console
-App Mesh may automatically create a default Envoy route retry policy for each virtual node provider that you define on or after July 29, 2020, even though you can't define such a policy through the App Mesh API. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).
+App Mesh automatically creates a default Envoy route retry policy for each virtual node provider that you define, even though you can't define such a policy through the App Mesh API. For more information, see [Default route retry policy](./envoy-defaults.html#default-retry-policy).