diff --git a/website/content/v1.2/introduction/system-requirements.md b/website/content/v1.2/introduction/system-requirements.md
index 734c84da2..39edaa8ee 100644
--- a/website/content/v1.2/introduction/system-requirements.md
+++ b/website/content/v1.2/introduction/system-requirements.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ description: "Hardware requirements for running Talos Linux."
   </thead>
   <tbody>
     <tr>
-      <td class="border px-4 py-2">Init/Control Plane</td>
+      <td class="border px-4 py-2">Control Plane</td>
       <td class="border px-4 py-2">2GB</td>
       <td class="border px-4 py-2">2</td>
     </tr>
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ description: "Hardware requirements for running Talos Linux."
   </thead>
   <tbody>
     <tr>
-      <td class="border px-4 py-2">Init/Control Plane</td>
+      <td class="border px-4 py-2">Control Plane</td>
       <td class="border px-4 py-2">4GB</td>
       <td class="border px-4 py-2">4</td>
     </tr>
diff --git a/website/content/v1.2/learn-more/control-plane.md b/website/content/v1.2/learn-more/control-plane.md
index 35bb526bf..4a36c5581 100644
--- a/website/content/v1.2/learn-more/control-plane.md
+++ b/website/content/v1.2/learn-more/control-plane.md
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ Talos cluster bootstrap flow:
 All nodes start the `kubelet` service.
 The `kubelet` tries to contact the control plane endpoint, but as it is not up yet, it keeps retrying.
 
-One of the control plane nodes is chosen as the bootstrap node.
-The node's type can be either `init` or `controlplane`, where the `controlplane` type is promoted using the bootstrap API (`talosctl bootstrap`).
+One of the control plane nodes is chosen as the bootstrap node, and promoted using the bootstrap API (`talosctl bootstrap`).
 The bootstrap node initiates the `etcd` bootstrap process by initializing `etcd` as the first member of the cluster.
 
 > Note: there should be only one bootstrap node for the cluster lifetime.
diff --git a/website/content/v1.2/talos-guides/install/cloud-platforms/aws.md b/website/content/v1.2/talos-guides/install/cloud-platforms/aws.md
index ce8a2f97c..3bb482672 100644
--- a/website/content/v1.2/talos-guides/install/cloud-platforms/aws.md
+++ b/website/content/v1.2/talos-guides/install/cloud-platforms/aws.md
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ while [[ "$CP_COUNT" -lt 4 ]]; do
 done
 ```
 
-> Make a note of the resulting `PrivateIpAddress` from the init and controlplane nodes for later use.
+> Make a note of the resulting `PrivateIpAddress` from the controlplane nodes for later use.
 
 #### Create the Worker Nodes