diff --git a/docs/guides/function-template-chemistry-workflow.ipynb b/docs/guides/function-template-chemistry-workflow.ipynb
index 2e7d0466cae..59cf0cf4d39 100644
--- a/docs/guides/function-template-chemistry-workflow.ipynb
+++ b/docs/guides/function-template-chemistry-workflow.ipynb
@@ -1185,8 +1185,8 @@
     "from qiskit_addon_sqd.fermion import bitstring_matrix_to_ci_strs\n",
     "from qiskit_addon_sqd.subsampling import postselect_and_subsample\n",
     "\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService, SamplerV2\n",
-    "from qiskit_serverless import get_arguments, save_result, distribute_task, get, update_status, Job\n",
+    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import SamplerV2\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import get_arguments, save_result, distribute_task, get, update_status, Job, get_runtime_service\n",
     "\n",
     "current_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))\n",
     "sys.path.insert(0, current_dir)\n",
@@ -1318,11 +1318,7 @@
     "    if testing_backend is None:\n",
     "        # Initialize Quantum Compute Service\n",
     "        logger.info(\"Starting runtime service\")\n",
-    "        service = QiskitRuntimeService(\n",
-    "            channel=os.environ[\"QISKIT_IBM_CHANNEL\"],\n",
-    "            instance=os.environ[\"IBM_CLOUD_INSTANCE\"],\n",
-    "            token=os.environ[\"your-API_KEY\"], # Use the 44-character API_KEY you created and saved from the IBM Quantum Platform Home dashboard\n",
-    "        )\n",
+    "        service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "        backend = service.backend(backend_name)\n",
     "        logger.info(f\"Backend: {backend.name}\")\n",
     "\n",
diff --git a/docs/guides/function-template-hamiltonian-simulation.ipynb b/docs/guides/function-template-hamiltonian-simulation.ipynb
index e1558f4ca18..e930d362e68 100644
--- a/docs/guides/function-template-hamiltonian-simulation.ipynb
+++ b/docs/guides/function-template-hamiltonian-simulation.ipynb
@@ -455,10 +455,10 @@
    "source": [
     "%%writefile --append ./source_files/template_hamiltonian_simulation.py\n",
     "\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import get_runtime_service\n",
     "from qiskit.transpiler import generate_preset_pass_manager\n",
     "\n",
-    "service = QiskitRuntimeService()\n",
+    "service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "backend = service.backend(backend_name)\n",
     "\n",
     "# Transpile PUBs (circuits and observables) to match ISA\n",
@@ -1339,8 +1339,9 @@
     "\n",
     "from qiskit.transpiler import generate_preset_pass_manager\n",
     "from qiskit_ibm_catalog import QiskitFunctionsCatalog\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import get_runtime_service\n",
     "\n",
-    "service = QiskitRuntimeService()\n",
+    "service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "backend = service.backend(backend_name)\n",
     "\n",
     "# Transpile PUBs (circuits and observables) to match ISA\n",
diff --git a/docs/guides/serverless-first-program.ipynb b/docs/guides/serverless-first-program.ipynb
index 838ef47d710..e94e2064808 100644
--- a/docs/guides/serverless-first-program.ipynb
+++ b/docs/guides/serverless-first-program.ipynb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     "qiskit[all]~=1.3.1\n",
     "qiskit-ibm-runtime~=0.34.0\n",
     "qiskit-aer~=0.15.1\n",
-    "qiskit-serverless~=0.18.1\n",
+    "qiskit-serverless~=0.27.0\n",
     "qiskit-ibm-catalog~=0.2\n",
     "qiskit-addon-sqd~=0.8.1\n",
     "qiskit-addon-utils~=0.1.0\n",
@@ -192,7 +192,15 @@
    "source": [
     "### Add code that calls the backend\n",
     "\n",
-    "Add the following code to your program file, which calls your backend with `QiskitRuntimeService`.\n",
+    "Add the following code to your program file, which gets a runtime service and uses it to select your backend.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "<Admonition type=\"note\" title=\"Use get_runtime_service inside Qiskit Serverless programs\">\n",
+    "Inside code that runs on Qiskit Serverless, create your runtime service with `get_runtime_service()` (imported from `qiskit_serverless`) instead of instantiating `QiskitRuntimeService()` directly.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "`get_runtime_service()` returns a drop-in wrapper around `QiskitRuntimeService` that registers every IBM Quantum primitive job and session it launches against the parent Qiskit Serverless job. This linkage is what lets the platform tie a Serverless job to the QPU jobs and sessions it spawns, for status tracking, logs, and usage and accounting. A bare `QiskitRuntimeService` submits jobs that the platform never associates with your Serverless job, so that linkage is lost.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "All arguments are optional. Inside program source, the recommended form is `get_runtime_service()` with no arguments, which pulls your authentication data from the environment. It accepts the same optional `channel`, `token`, `instance`, and `url` arguments as `QiskitRuntimeService`.\n",
+    "</Admonition>\n",
     "\n",
     "The following code assumes that you have already followed the process to save your credentials by using `QiskitRuntimeService.save_account`, and will load your default saved account unless you specify otherwise. See [Save your login credentials](/docs/guides/save-credentials) and [Initialize your IBM Quantum Compute Service account](/docs/guides/initialize-account) for more information."
    ]
@@ -208,9 +216,9 @@
     "# If you include the preceding `%%writefile` command (visible only when you read this\n",
     "# locally in a notebook), running this cell saves to disk rather than executing the code.\n",
     "\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import get_runtime_service\n",
     "\n",
-    "service = QiskitRuntimeService()\n",
+    "service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "backend = service.backend(backend_name)"
    ]
   },
diff --git a/docs/guides/serverless-manage-resources.ipynb b/docs/guides/serverless-manage-resources.ipynb
index 56fdf547b50..a7a61d7f451 100644
--- a/docs/guides/serverless-manage-resources.ipynb
+++ b/docs/guides/serverless-manage-resources.ipynb
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "```\n",
     "qiskit[all]~=2.0.0\n",
     "qiskit-ibm-runtime~=0.37.0\n",
-    "qiskit-serverless~=0.22.0\n",
+    "qiskit-serverless~=0.27.0\n",
     "```\n",
     "</AccordionItem>\n",
     "</Accordion>"
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
     "\n",
     "For classical tasks that can be parallelized, use the `@distribute_task` decorator to define compute requirements needed to perform a task. Start by recalling the `transpile_remote.py` example from the [Write your first Qiskit Serverless program](/docs/guides/serverless-first-program) topic with the following code.\n",
     "\n",
-    "The following code requires that you have already [saved your credentials](/docs/guides/cloud-setup)."
+    "The following code requires that you have already [saved your credentials](/docs/guides/cloud-setup). As in that example, it creates the runtime service with `get_runtime_service()` so that any Qiskit Runtime jobs and sessions it launches are tracked against the parent Qiskit Serverless job. See [Write your first Qiskit Serverless program](/docs/guides/serverless-first-program) for details."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -172,10 +172,9 @@
     "# notebook), running this cell saves to disk rather than executing the code.\n",
     "\n",
     "from qiskit.transpiler import generate_preset_pass_manager\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
-    "from qiskit_serverless import distribute_task\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import distribute_task, get_runtime_service\n",
     "\n",
-    "service = QiskitRuntimeService()\n",
+    "service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "\n",
     "@distribute_task(target={\"cpu\": 1})\n",
     "def transpile_remote(circuit, optimization_level, backend):\n",
diff --git a/docs/guides/serverless-port-code.ipynb b/docs/guides/serverless-port-code.ipynb
index 38ee69890b5..bc27907c8c5 100644
--- a/docs/guides/serverless-port-code.ipynb
+++ b/docs/guides/serverless-port-code.ipynb
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
     "\n",
     "## Update the experiment\n",
     "\n",
+    "<Admonition type=\"note\">\n",
+    "In the Serverless version, create the runtime service with `get_runtime_service()` (from `qiskit_serverless`) instead of `QiskitRuntimeService()`, so that the IBM Quantum&reg; Compute Service jobs and sessions it launches are tracked against the parent Qiskit Serverless job. See [Write your first Qiskit Serverless program](/docs/guides/serverless-first-program) for details.\n",
+    "</Admonition>\n",
+    "\n",
     "<Tabs>\n",
     "  <TabItem value=\"LocalExperiment\" label=\"Local Experiment\">\n",
     "```python\n",
@@ -79,8 +83,7 @@
     "# transpile_remote.py\n",
     "\n",
     "from qiskit.transpiler import generate_preset_pass_manager\n",
-    "from qiskit_serverless import get_arguments, save_result, distribute_task, get\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import get_arguments, save_result, distribute_task, get, get_runtime_service\n",
     "\n",
     "# Get program arguments\n",
     "arguments = get_arguments()\n",
@@ -102,7 +105,7 @@
     "\n",
     "try:\n",
     "    # Get backend\n",
-    "    service = QiskitRuntimeService()\n",
+    "    service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "    backend = service.get_backend(backend_name)\n",
     "\n",
     "    # run distributed tasks as async function\n",
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/implicit-solvent-calculations.ipynb b/docs/tutorials/implicit-solvent-calculations.ipynb
index 7dfbd2db3d9..9b4cc25e1f2 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/implicit-solvent-calculations.ipynb
+++ b/docs/tutorials/implicit-solvent-calculations.ipynb
@@ -166,8 +166,13 @@
     "from functools import partial\n",
     "import os\n",
     "\n",
-    "from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
-    "from qiskit_serverless import distribute_task, get_arguments, get, save_result\n",
+    "from qiskit_serverless import (\n",
+    "    distribute_task,\n",
+    "    get_arguments,\n",
+    "    get,\n",
+    "    save_result,\n",
+    "    get_runtime_service,\n",
+    ")\n",
     "from qiskit_addon_sqd.fermion import (\n",
     "    SCIResult,\n",
     "    diagonalize_fermionic_hamiltonian,\n",
@@ -287,11 +292,7 @@
     "# Instantiate Runtime Service to retrieve the\n",
     "# bitstrings from the QPU job. We provided these\n",
     "# credentials upon Serverless setup.\n",
-    "service = QiskitRuntimeService(\n",
-    "    channel=os.environ.get(\"QISKIT_IBM_CHANNEL\"),\n",
-    "    token=os.environ.get(\"QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN\"),\n",
-    "    instance=os.environ.get(\"QISKIT_IBM_INSTANCE\"),\n",
-    ")\n",
+    "service = get_runtime_service()\n",
     "\n",
     "# retrieving the QPU job data from the Serverless side\n",
     "job = service.job(job_id)\n",
@@ -1202,7 +1203,6 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "# Heartwood algorithm subroutines\n",
-    "import os\n",
     "import numpy as np\n",
     "import pyscf\n",
     "from pyscf import ao2mo, cc\n",
@@ -1741,6 +1741,7 @@
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
+  "hours": 1.5,
   "kernelspec": {
    "display_name": "Python 3",
    "language": "python",
@@ -1758,7 +1759,6 @@
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
    "version": "3"
   },
-  "hours": 1.5,
   "qpuSeconds": 120
  },
  "nbformat": 4,