During this period, work focused on enhancing AWS Availability Zone discovery by updating IAM policies to include the ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones permission for both control plane and worker nodes. This change, implemented in the rancher/rancher-product-docs repository, enabled more reliable AZ-aware scheduling and resource placement across AWS environments. The technical approach involved modifying IAM policy definitions and updating related documentation in Markdown to ensure clarity and alignment. By leveraging AWS, IAM policies, and cloud infrastructure expertise, the update reduced manual configuration and minimized errors in multi-AZ deployments, supporting improved automation and operational reliability without introducing new bugs during the development cycle.