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AWS cli: RDS: clarify encryption field in failover-db-cluster output

Service: cli · 2026-10-21 · Documentation medium

File: cli/latest/reference/rds/failover-db-cluster.md · Type: encryption

Summary

CLI reference version bump 2.38.2→2.38.3 and a rewritten DBCluster 'Encrypted' description explaining AWS owned vs customer managed key encryption and the StorageEncryptionType indicator.

Security assessment

The added sentence explains that an unencrypted-looking value may still correspond to encrypted at-rest data under an AWS owned key, and tells operators how to verify protection via StorageEncryptionType. Documentation-only encryption clarification; no vulnerability addressed.

Evidence

>>> If the DB cluster is encrypted with an Amazon Web Services owned key, this value is `false` and `StorageEncryptionType` is `sse-rds` . In that case, the data at rest is still encrypted. To determine how the data at rest is protected, use `StorageEncryptionType` .

Diff

diff --git a/cli/latest/reference/rds/failover-db-cluster.md b/cli/latest/reference/rds/failover-db-cluster.md
index 1dd9df0..d6d405e 100644
--- a//cli/latest/reference/rds/failover-db-cluster.md
+++ b//cli/latest/reference/rds/failover-db-cluster.md
@@ -15 +15 @@
-  * [AWS CLI 2.38.2 Command Reference](../../index.html) »
+  * [AWS CLI 2.38.3 Command Reference](../../index.html) »
@@ -508 +508,3 @@ DBCluster -> (structure)
->> Indicates whether the DB cluster is encrypted.
+>> Specifies whether the DB cluster is encrypted with an Amazon Web Services managed key or a customer managed key.
+>> 
+>> If the DB cluster is encrypted with an Amazon Web Services owned key, this value is `false` and `StorageEncryptionType` is `sse-rds` . In that case, the data at rest is still encrypted. To determine how the data at rest is protected, use `StorageEncryptionType` .
@@ -1174 +1176 @@ DBCluster -> (structure)
-  * [AWS CLI 2.38.2 Command Reference](../../index.html) »
+  * [AWS CLI 2.38.3 Command Reference](../../index.html) »