# Receiving alerts generated by AMS
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AWS Managed Services (AMS) enables you to receive alert notifications for Amazon EC2 resources directly to reduce communication delays. To receive Amazon EC2 alerts directly, subscribe your target (preferred email) to the Amazon SNS topic **Direct-Customer-Alerts** using the Management \$1 Monitoring and notification \$1 SNS \$1 Subscribe change type (ct-3rcl9u1k017wu).

**Note**  
Not all baseline alerts are sent to the **Direct-Customer-Alerts** topic by default. To see all alerts that are generated by the AMS monitoring system, subscribe to the Amazon SNS topic for the AMS monitoring system. In the request, ask for the "AMS Monitoring Topic", specify a subscription channel to receive the alerts (Lambda, Amazon SQS, HTTP/S, email, or SMS), and specify the endpoints (for example, email addresses, if you choose the email protocol) that will receive the alerts.  
The AMS monitoring topic receives alerts that are used by AMS shared services, so it can be noisy.

To learn more, see the [Subscribe](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/api/API_Subscribe.html) section in the *Amazon Simple Notification Service Subscribe API reference*.

For a list of baseline alerts AMS provides, see [Alerts from baseline monitoring in AMS](monitoring-default-metrics.md).