# Onboard workloads to Incident Detection and Response
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AWS Incident Detection and Response enables monitoring and critical incident management for your selected workloads. A workload is a collection of resources working together to deliver business value, such as a payment portal or a customer relationship management (CRM) system. You can host these workloads in either a single AWS account or distributed across multiple accounts, depending on your architecture.

**Contents**
+ [Onboard to Incident Detection and Response with the IDR CLI](idr-gs-idrcli.md)
  + [Language support for the IDR CLI](idr-gs-idrcli.md#idr-gs-idrcli-languages)
  + [Alternative options for onboarding workloads](idr-gs-idrcli.md#idr-gs-idrcli-alternatives-onboarding)