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Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2026-07-10 · Documentation low

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/ams-accelerate-governance-best-practices/ams-accelerate-governance.md

Summary

Updated documentation structure and formatting: fixed broken links, corrected typos, restructured headers, condensed notification examples table, and improved readability.

Security assessment

Changes involve structural improvements and typo fixes (e.g., 'add–on' to 'add-on', URL corrections). Security-related content in notifications table remains unchanged in substance. No vulnerability fixes or incident responses documented.

Diff

diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/ams-accelerate-governance-best-practices/ams-accelerate-governance.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/ams-accelerate-governance-best-practices/ams-accelerate-governance.md
index 53ef627bd..41bc2fb8c 100644
--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/ams-accelerate-governance-best-practices/ams-accelerate-governance.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/ams-accelerate-governance-best-practices/ams-accelerate-governance.md
@@ -5 +5 @@
-[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Prescriptive Guidance](https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/)[AMS Accelerate operations plan governance best practices](welcome.html)
+[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Prescriptive Guidance](https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/)[AMS Accelerate operations plan governance best practices](introduction.html)
@@ -7 +7 @@
-Roles and responsibilities (RACI matrix)Account teamsSLAsContact hoursNotifications
+Roles and responsibilities (RACI matrix)
@@ -15 +15 @@ The following table is a responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed (RACI
-For more information, see [Roles and responsibilities](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-sd.html#acc-sd-responsibilities) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide_.
+For more information, see [Roles and responsibilities](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-sd.html#acc-sd-responsibilities) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide_.
@@ -32 +32 @@ Activity | You | AMS Accelerate
-**Application lifecycle** |  |   
+**Application lifecycle**  
@@ -44 +44 @@ Incident response for AWS resource issues | C | R
-**Account configuration and onboarding** |  |   
+**Account configuration and onboarding**  
@@ -57 +57 @@ Configuring default alert thresholds for security management | I | R
-## Account teams
+### Account teams
@@ -63,5 +63 @@ Your AMS Accelerate account team can help you launch new projects and give best
-  * **Cloud services delivery managers (CSDMs)** provide advisory assistance across AMS and have a detailed understanding of the use case and technology architecture of the managed environment.
-
-  * **AMS cloud architects (CAs) and solutions architects (SAs)** help launch new projects and give best-practices recommendations throughout the software development and operations processes.
-
-
+**Cloud services delivery managers (CSDMs)** provide advisory assistance across AMS and have a detailed understanding of the use case and technology architecture of the managed environment.
@@ -68,0 +65 @@ Your AMS Accelerate account team can help you launch new projects and give best
+**AMS cloud architects (CAs) and solutions architects (SAs)** help launch new projects and give best-practices recommendations throughout the software development and operations processes.
@@ -72 +69 @@ For more information, including the specific responsibilities of your CSDM, see
-## SLAs
+### SLAs
@@ -76 +73 @@ AMS Accelerate has two Service Level Agreement (SLA) tiers: **Plus** and **Premi
-The following tables show the SLA targets for each tier’s response and resolution time, based on the priority of the incident or request.
+The following tables show the SLA targets for each tier's response and resolution time, based on the priority of the incident or request. 
@@ -94 +91 @@ Priority level | Response time | Resolution time
-## Contact hours
+### Contact hours
@@ -96 +93 @@ Priority level | Response time | Resolution time
-AMS Accelerate provides different contact hours based on the SLA tier level assigned to each AWS account. For more information, see [Contact hours](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-contact-hours.html) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide_.
+AMS Accelerate provides different contact hours based on the SLA tier level assigned to each AWS account. For more information, see [Contact hours](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-contact-hours.html) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide._
@@ -98 +95 @@ AMS Accelerate provides different contact hours based on the SLA tier level assi
-## Notifications
+### Notifications
@@ -106 +103 @@ AMS sends notifications to you for the following reasons only:
-  * Patching service notifications (if you've activated the patch add–on)
+  * Patching service notifications (if you've activated the patch add-on)
@@ -119 +116 @@ There are two ways to set up AMS Accelerate notifications:
-  * [Tag–based alert notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/how-monitoring-works.html#how-mon-works-alert-notes-tags) send an alert for a specific AWS resource to an email address that’s configured in the resource’s tag. For more information, see [Tagging in AMS Accelerate](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-tagging.html) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide_.
+  * [Tag-based alert notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/how-monitoring-works.html#how-mon-works-alert-notes-tags) send an alert for a specific AWS resource to an email address that's configured in the resource's tag. For more information, see [Tagging in AMS Accelerate](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/acc-tagging.html) in the _AMS Accelerate User Guide_.
@@ -121 +118 @@ There are two ways to set up AMS Accelerate notifications:
-  * [Alert notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/how-monitoring-works.html#how-monitoring-works-alert-notes) send an alert to the email address associated with your account.
+  * [Alert notifications](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/accelerate-guide/how-monitoring-works.html#how-monitoring-works-alert-notes) send an alert to the email address associated with your account.
@@ -128 +125 @@ There are two ways to set up AMS Accelerate notifications:
-It’s a best practice to use tag–based alert notifications. Alert notifications sent to a single email address can cause confusion when multiple teams use the same AWS account. Tag–based alert notifications are available for most Amazon CloudWatch alarms.
+It's a best practice to use tag-based alert notifications. Alert notifications sent to a single email address can cause confusion when multiple teams use the same AWS account. Tag-based alert notifications are available for most Amazon CloudWatch alarms.
@@ -130 +127 @@ It’s a best practice to use tag–based alert notifications. Alert notificatio
-**Tag–based alert notification examples**
+**Tag-based alert notification examples**
@@ -132 +129 @@ It’s a best practice to use tag–based alert notifications. Alert notificatio
-Notification type | Example alert scenerios | Relevant tags  
+Notification type| Example alert scenarios| Relevant tags  
@@ -134,37 +131,6 @@ Notification type | Example alert scenerios | Relevant tags
-Security | 
-
-  * Escalations of privileges, uses of exposed credentials, or communication with malicious IP addresses or domains
-  * Access behavior that points to signs of account compromise, such as unauthorized infrastructure deployments 
-
-| **ams:rt:ams-managed**  
-Operations: Service–level events | 
-
-  * A change to an underlying AWS service that affects your infrastructure
-  * Amazon EC2 hardware issues that require you to reboot an instance before a certain date
-
-| **ams:rt:ams-managed** **ams:rt:ams-monitoring-policy**  
-Operations: Resource–level events | 
-
-  * Any resource–level change in your AWS environment
-
-| **ownerteamemail**  
-Operations: Patching | 
-
-  * An advance notice of each upcoming maintenance window
-  * Patching statuses
-
-| **ams:rt:ams-managed** **AmsDefaultPatchKey**  
-Operations: Incidents | 
-
-  * Logging the occurrence of incidents
-  * Incident updates
-  * Incident resolution notices
-
-| **ams:rt:ams-managed**  
-Operations: Backups | 
-
-  * AWS Backup job failures
-  * AWS Backup job expirations
-  * Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) backup job failures
-
-| **ams:rt:ams-managed** **ams:rt:backup-orchestrator** **ams-onboarding-backup-plan**  
+Security| Escalations of privileges, uses of exposed credentials, or communication with malicious IP addresses or domainsAccess behavior that points to signs of account compromise, such as unauthorized infrastructure deployments| **ams:rt:ams-managed**  
+Operations: Service-level events| A change to an underlying AWS service that affects your infrastructureAmazon EC2 hardware issues that require you to reboot an instance before a certain date| **ams:rt:ams-managed****ams:rt:ams-monitoring-policy**  
+Operations: Resource-level events| Any resource-level change in your AWS environment| **ownerteamemail**  
+Operations: Patching| An advance notice of each upcoming maintenance windowPatching statuses| **ams:rt:ams-managed****AmsDefaultPatchKey**  
+Operations: Incidents| Logging the occurrence of incidentsIncident updatesIncident resolution notices| **ams:rt:ams-managed**  
+Operations: Backups| AWS Backup job failuresAWS Backup job expirationsAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) backup job failures| **ams:rt:ams-managed****ams:rt:backup-orchestrator****ams-onboarding-backup-plan**  
@@ -178 +144 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Comparing AMS Accelerate and Support
+Comparing AMS Accelerate and AWS Support