# Customer-managed tags in Accelerate
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Certain tags are required to trigger various AMS Accelerate actions.

**Contents**
+ [Monitoring in Accelerate](acc-tag-req-mon.md)
+ [Configuring tags for EC2 instances in Accelerate](acc-tag-req-ins-config.md)
+ [Managing tags for backups in Accelerate](acc-tag-req-backup.md)