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AWS resilience-hub: Add EKS permissions setup pointer for multi-Region recovery test

Service: resilience-hub · 2026-10-01 · Documentation low

File: resilience-hub/latest/userguide/next-gen-resilience-testing-multi-region-recovery.md · Type: iam

Summary

Extends the additional-setup sentence for dependency-blocking FIS actions in the multi-Region recovery test to point Amazon EKS pod users to the (Optional) Resilience testing parts of the Amazon EKS permissions steps.

Security assessment

The change appends a pointer to the IAM permissions/roles setup for EKS pods; it is security-adjacent IAM configuration documentation with no evidence of addressing a specific vulnerability.

Evidence

+The actions used to block dependencies require additional setup: SSM Agent installed on Amazon EC2 instances, an SSM Agent container in your Amazon ECS task definition, or a Kubernetes service account for Amazon EKS pods. For Amazon EKS pods, complete the **(Optional) Resilience testing** parts of the Amazon EKS permissions steps. For more information, see [Required IAM permissions and roles](./next-gen-iam-permissions.html).

Diff

diff --git a/resilience-hub/latest/userguide/next-gen-resilience-testing-multi-region-recovery.md b/resilience-hub/latest/userguide/next-gen-resilience-testing-multi-region-recovery.md
index dfaa026..43f1511 100644
--- a//resilience-hub/latest/userguide/next-gen-resilience-testing-multi-region-recovery.md
+++ b//resilience-hub/latest/userguide/next-gen-resilience-testing-multi-region-recovery.md
@@ -69 +69 @@ This test runs the following AWS FIS actions to drop traffic to the dependencies
-The actions used to block dependencies require additional setup: SSM Agent installed on Amazon EC2 instances, an SSM Agent container in your Amazon ECS task definition, or a Kubernetes service account for Amazon EKS pods.
+The actions used to block dependencies require additional setup: SSM Agent installed on Amazon EC2 instances, an SSM Agent container in your Amazon ECS task definition, or a Kubernetes service account for Amazon EKS pods. For Amazon EKS pods, complete the **(Optional) Resilience testing** parts of the Amazon EKS permissions steps. For more information, see [Required IAM permissions and roles](./next-gen-iam-permissions.html).