diff --git a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/Appraisals b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/Appraisals
index 41ffa67ca..c9c9b908b 100644
--- a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/Appraisals
+++ b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/Appraisals
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ appraise 'aws-sdk-3' do
 end
 
 # pre-Observability support in V3 SDK
-appraise 'aws-sdk-3.2' do
+appraise 'aws-sdk-3.202' do
   gem 'aws-sdk-core', '~> 3.202'
   gem 'aws-sdk-lambda', '~> 1.127'
   gem 'aws-sdk-dynamodb', '~> 1.118'
diff --git a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/README.md b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/README.md
index 7ddb0de05..fcf4de368 100644
--- a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/README.md
@@ -40,20 +40,19 @@ This instrumentation offers the following configuration options:
  span kind of `internal` are suppressed from traces.
 
 ## Integration with SDK V3's Telemetry support
-AWS SDK for Ruby V3 added support for Observability which includes a configuration, 
+AWS SDK for Ruby V3 added support for Observability which includes a new configuration, 
 `telemetry_provider` and an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry provider. Only applies to
 AWS service gems released after 2024-09-03. 
 
-Using the OTel telemetry provider will give you insights about specific handlers 
-during the SDK request/response lifecycle.
-
+Using later versions of these gems will give more details on the internal spans. 
+See below for example usage:
 ```ruby
 # configures the OpenTelemetry SDK with instrumentation defaults
 OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure do |c|
   c.use 'OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::AwsSdk'
 end
 
-# create otel provider and pass to client config
+# create open-telemetry provider and pass to client config
 otel_provider = Aws::Telemetry::OTelProvider.new
 client = Aws::S3::Client.new(telemetry_provider: otel_provider)
 ```
diff --git a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/lib/opentelemetry/instrumentation/aws_sdk/instrumentation.rb b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/lib/opentelemetry/instrumentation/aws_sdk/instrumentation.rb
index 55eee315c..3dd310206 100644
--- a/instrumentation/aws_sdk/lib/opentelemetry/instrumentation/aws_sdk/instrumentation.rb
+++ b/instrumentation/aws_sdk/lib/opentelemetry/instrumentation/aws_sdk/instrumentation.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class Instrumentation < OpenTelemetry::Instrumentation::Base
 
         install do |_config|
           require_dependencies
-          patch if telemetry_plugin?
+          patch_telemetry_plugin if telemetry_plugin?
           add_plugins(Seahorse::Client::Base, *loaded_service_clients)
         end
 
@@ -61,10 +61,13 @@ def supports_telemetry_plugin?(klass)
         end
 
         def telemetry_plugin?
-          ::Aws.const_defined?('Plugins::Telemetry')
+          ::Aws::Plugins.const_defined?(:Telemetry)
         end
 
-        def patch
+        # Patches AWS SDK V3's telemetry plugin for integration
+        # This patch supports configuration set by this gem and
+        # additional span attributes that was not provided by the plugin
+        def patch_telemetry_plugin
           ::Aws::Plugins::Telemetry::Handler.prepend(Patches::Handler)
         end