ini description

Author: ZNeumann

agent/scripts/newrelic.ini.template

@@ -1357,7 +1357,11 @@ newrelic.daemon.logfile = "/var/log/newrelic/newrelic-daemon.log"
 ; Type   : string
 ; Scope  : per-directory
 ; Default: none
-; Info   : AWS account id that is used to map entities called
-;          via the AWS SDK.
+; Info   : This setting is read by some cloud service instrumentation so the
+;          cloud.resource_id attribute can be set in the respective spans.
+;
+;          AWS DynamoDB and Kinesis are services that require this value to be
+;          able to populate the cloud.resource_id attribute. Likewise, AWS Lambda
+;          requires that this value when the account ID is not part of the function name.
 ;
 ;newrelic.cloud.aws.account_id = ""