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AWS drs: AWS managed policy update for recovery plans

Service: drs · 2026-08-19 · Documentation medium

File: drs/latest/userguide/drs-service-release-notes.md · Type: iam

Summary

Added release note about updating the read-only policy with permissions for recovery plans.

Security assessment

The evidence documents an IAM policy change, which relates to authorization controls. This updates security documentation but does not address a specific vulnerability.

Evidence

+  * [AWS managed policy update](./security-iam-awsmanpol.html) – We updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess policy with new read-only permissions for recovery plans and recovery plan executions.

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diff --git a/drs/latest/userguide/drs-service-release-notes.md b/drs/latest/userguide/drs-service-release-notes.md
index 0fc4d31c9..469b4c6fc 100644
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@@ -12,0 +13,4 @@ August 2026July 2026June 2026April 2025February 2025October 2024September 2024Ju
+  * AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports **recovery plans**. With recovery plans, you can recover groups of source servers in a defined order, with wait times between groups. A recovery plan contains up to 20 ordered steps and up to 100 source servers. Each server step recovers its servers in parallel and must finish before the next step begins, and each server can be marked critical or optional to control whether its failure stops the plan. You can run a plan as a drill or as a recovery, follow its progress per step and per server, and retry, skip, or cancel steps while it runs. Recovery plans are available in the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery console and through the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery API. For more information, see [Orchestrating recovery with recovery plans](./recovery-plans.html).
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+  * [AWS managed policy update](./security-iam-awsmanpol.html) – We updated the AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess policy with new read-only permissions for recovery plans and recovery plan executions.
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@@ -76 +80 @@ August 2026July 2026June 2026April 2025February 2025October 2024September 2024Ju
-  * AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports [Flexible Instance Types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//drs/latest/userguide/flexible-instance-types.html). 
+  * AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports [Flexible Instance Types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/flexible-instance-types.html).