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Answer
AWM, if active, sets the regulatory domain and country of the 60 series radio to the current location with the help of beacons it receives from surrounding access points.
To be FCC compliant, it's mandatory that the routine to determine the location must run every 30 minutes. This is a draw-back for softAPs created on the 60 series radio as connections will be interrupted every 30 minutes. Some clients may affected more heavily than others.
However, running the AWM routine regularly is not mandatory for the other regulatory domains for which the 60 series is certified. For those, it is enough that the location is determined upon the first run of the routine; it does not have to be repeated after that. That is what AWM-lite does.
For radios only deployed in ISED, ETSI, MIC, and KC regulatory domains, AWM-lite can be used. This also enables the seamless use of the 60 series radio as a softAP in conjunction with AWM(-lite).
It is also good practice to consult the application note app_note_60_summit_awm, which is located in the documents library of the 60 series radio software releases.