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AWS incident-manager documentation change

Service: incident-manager · 2025-03-10 · Documentation low

File: incident-manager/latest/userguide/sharing.md

Summary

Updated contact sharing documentation with note about cross-account contact limitations in response plans

Security assessment

The change clarifies existing functionality limitations without indicating any security vulnerability or introducing new security-related features. It's a documentation update about current capabilities.

Diff

diff --git a/incident-manager/latest/userguide/sharing.md
index eaa437aac..1357d3ec7 100644
--- a/incident-manager/latest/userguide/sharing.md
+++ b/incident-manager/latest/userguide/sharing.md
@@ -9 +9 @@ Prerequisites for sharing contacts and response plansRelated servicesSharing a c
-With contact sharing, as a contact owner, you can share contact information, escalation plans, and engagements with other AWS accounts or within an AWS organization. You can create and manage contacts and escalation plans centrally, and ensure that others can engage the correct contacts during an incident. 
+With contact sharing, as a contact owner, you can share contact information, escalation plans, and engagements with other AWS accounts or within an AWS organization. 
@@ -11 +11 @@ With contact sharing, as a contact owner, you can share contact information, esc
-With response plan sharing, as a response plan owner, you can share a response plan and the related incidents with other AWS accounts or within an AWS organization. You can create and manage response plans centrally so that responders in consumer accounts can interact with incidents as they happen.
+With response plan sharing, as a response plan owner, you can share a response plan and the related incidents with other AWS accounts or within an AWS organization. 
@@ -71,0 +72,4 @@ You can share a contact or response plan that you own by using the AWS RAM conso
+###### Note
+
+Currently, the ability to add a contact that’s shared from another account to a response plan is not supported.
+