diff --git a/documentation/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/antora/modules/how-to/pages/deployment/cloud.adoc b/documentation/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/antora/modules/how-to/pages/deployment/cloud.adoc
index 59b32af8072..8ed0d6f75df 100644
--- a/documentation/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/antora/modules/how-to/pages/deployment/cloud.adoc
+++ b/documentation/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/antora/modules/how-to/pages/deployment/cloud.adoc
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ NOTE: Spring Boot applications can be packaged in Docker containers using techni
 
 In addition to the developer guide, AWS also provides a https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/create-container-image.html[topical guide] for deploying containerized Java services on Amazon ECS using AWS Fargate.
 
-TIP: Spring Boot auto-detects AWS ECS environments by checking for the `AWS_EXECUTION_ENV` variable.
+TIP: Spring Boot auto-detects AWS ECS deployment environments by checking the environment for the `AWS_EXECUTION_ENV` variable.
 You can override this detection with the configprop:spring.main.cloud-platform[] configuration property.