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AWS storagegateway: Document FIPS-compliant VPC endpoint configuration

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

File: storagegateway/latest/tgw/gateway-private-link.md · Type: encryption

Summary

Added instructions for selecting FIPS service names and noted regional availability for FIPS endpoints.

Security assessment

Provides explicit guidance for configuring FIPS-validated endpoints, strengthening encryption standards.

Evidence

For FIPS-compliant endpoints, choose `com.amazonaws.`region`.storagegateway-fips`, for example, `com.amazonaws.us-east-2.storagegateway-fips`.

Diff

diff --git a/storagegateway/latest/tgw/gateway-private-link.md b/storagegateway/latest/tgw/gateway-private-link.md
index 897289f1a..c32384bd1 100644
--- a//storagegateway/latest/tgw/gateway-private-link.md
+++ b//storagegateway/latest/tgw/gateway-private-link.md
@@ -38 +38,5 @@ Follow these instructions to create a VPC endpoint. If you already have a VPC en
-  4. For **Service Name** , choose `com.amazonaws.`region`.storagegateway`. For example `com.amazonaws.us-east-2.storagegateway`.
+  4. For **Service Name** , choose `com.amazonaws.`region`.storagegateway`. For example `com.amazonaws.us-east-2.storagegateway`. For FIPS-compliant endpoints, choose `com.amazonaws.`region`.storagegateway-fips`, for example, `com.amazonaws.us-east-2.storagegateway-fips`.
+
+###### Note
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+FIPS endpoints are available only in some AWS Regions. For more information, see [Storage Gateway endpoints and quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sg.html) in the _AWS General Reference_.
@@ -63,0 +68,2 @@ Follow these instructions to create a VPC endpoint. If you already have a VPC en
+If you use a FIPS endpoint in a Region with FIPS availability, your DNS name looks similar to this example: `vpce-1234567e1c24a1fe9-62qntt8k.storagegateway-fips.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com `
+