# What is AMS Accelerate?
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Welcome to AMS Accelerate for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AMS Accelerate provides a range of operational services to help you achieve operational excellence on AWS. Whether you're just getting started in the cloud, looking to augment your current team, or need a long-term operational solution, Accelerate can help you meet your operational goals in the cloud. Leveraging AWS services and a library of automations, configurations, and runbooks, we provide an end-to-end operational solution for both new and existing AWS environments.

The Accelerate service leverages a suite of native AWS services and features to provide a comprehensive set of infrastructure management capabilities. Within these AWS services, Accelerate creates and maintains curated sets of monitoring controls, detection guardrails, automations, and runbooks to operate infrastructure in a compliant and secure way. 

**Topics**
+ [AMS operations plans](what-is-ams-op-plans.md)
+ [Using the AMS Accelerate operations plan](acc-what-is.md)
+ [AMS key terms](key-terms.md)
+ [Service description](acc-sd.md)
+ [Capabilities for unsupported operating systems in Accelerate](acc-unsupported-os.md)
+ [Contact and escalation](acc-contact-escalate.md)
+ [Resource inventory for Accelerate](acc-resource-inventory.md)