diff --git a/pages/table/embedded-in-alert.page.tsx b/pages/table/embedded-in-alert.page.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 50be5569c2..0000000000
--- a/pages/table/embedded-in-alert.page.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-import React, { useState } from 'react';
-
-import Alert from '~components/alert';
-import Box from '~components/box';
-import Header from '~components/header';
-import SpaceBetween from '~components/space-between';
-import Table, { TableProps } from '~components/table';
-
-import ScreenshotArea from '../utils/screenshot-area';
-import { generateItems } from './generate-data';
-import { columnsConfig } from './shared-configs';
-
-const tableItems = generateItems(6);
-
-export default () => {
-  return (
-    <ScreenshotArea>
-      <h1>Table embedded in alert</h1>
-
-      <SpaceBetween direction="vertical" size="m">
-        <Alert type="info" header="Alert with borderless table" statusIconAriaLabel="Info">
-          <Box variant="p">Some description</Box>
-
-          <ExampleTable variant="borderless" />
-        </Alert>
-
-        <Alert type="info" header="Alert with container table" statusIconAriaLabel="Info">
-          <Box variant="p">Some description</Box>
-
-          <ExampleTable variant="container" />
-        </Alert>
-
-        <ExampleTable variant="borderless" />
-      </SpaceBetween>
-    </ScreenshotArea>
-  );
-};
-
-const ExampleTable = ({ variant }: { variant: TableProps.Variant }) => {
-  const [selectedItems, setSelectedItems] = useState<any>([tableItems[tableItems.length - 1]]);
-
-  return (
-    <Table
-      variant={variant}
-      onSelectionChange={({ detail }) => setSelectedItems(detail.selectedItems)}
-      selectedItems={selectedItems}
-      columnDefinitions={columnsConfig}
-      items={tableItems}
-      selectionType="multi"
-      header={<Header>Table with variant {variant}</Header>}
-      ariaLabels={{
-        selectionGroupLabel: 'Items selection',
-        allItemsSelectionLabel: () => 'select all',
-        itemSelectionLabel: (selection, item) => item.id,
-      }}
-    />
-  );
-};
diff --git a/src/container/styles.scss b/src/container/styles.scss
index e8d7e68578..e052def6ca 100644
--- a/src/container/styles.scss
+++ b/src/container/styles.scss
@@ -127,11 +127,6 @@
     background-color: awsui.$color-background-layout-main;
   }
 
-  // "embedded" variant is passed to container only from table variants "borderless" and "embedded"
-  &.header-variant-embedded {
-    background-color: transparent;
-  }
-
   &.header-with-media {
     background: none;
     &:not(:empty) {
diff --git a/src/table/header-cell/styles.scss b/src/table/header-cell/styles.scss
index 7b760e8972..4cd0b59b48 100644
--- a/src/table/header-cell/styles.scss
+++ b/src/table/header-cell/styles.scss
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ $cell-horizontal-padding: awsui.$space-scaled-l;
   &-variant-full-page.header-cell-hidden {
     border-block-end-color: transparent;
   }
-  &-variant-borderless {
-    background: none;
-  }
   &:last-child,
   &.header-cell-sortable {
     padding-inline-end: awsui.$space-xs;