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AWS security-lake: Add guidance for regulated workloads with new AWS sign-up

Service: security-lake · 2026-08-19 · Documentation medium

File: security-lake/latest/userguide/compliance-validation.md

Summary

Added a note about limitations of the new AWS sign-up experience for regulated workloads.

Security assessment

Documents compliance best practices for regulated environments, which is security-adjacent guidance.

Evidence

+Our new AWS sign-up experience is not designed for regulated workloads. If you're using our new AWS sign-up experience, but you want to use AWS for regulated workloads, you can [sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) or [activate advanced features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/activate-advanced-features.html) for your AWS environment.

Diff

diff --git a/security-lake/latest/userguide/compliance-validation.md b/security-lake/latest/userguide/compliance-validation.md
index a84271f9d..7ff6d931f 100644
--- a//security-lake/latest/userguide/compliance-validation.md
+++ b//security-lake/latest/userguide/compliance-validation.md
@@ -8,0 +9,2 @@
+Our new AWS sign-up experience is not designed for regulated workloads. If you're using our new AWS sign-up experience, but you want to use AWS for regulated workloads, you can [sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) or [activate advanced features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/activate-advanced-features.html) for your AWS environment.
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