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 Currently, we have built-in support for the following alert types:
 
-- Email
+- E-mail
 - JIRA
 - OpsGenie
 - Commands
 - HipChat
-- MS Teams
+- Microsoft Teams
 - Slack
 - Telegram
-- GoogleChat
-- AWS SNS
+- Google Chat
+- Amazon Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS)
 - VictorOps
 - PagerDuty
 - PagerTree