• The AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Tutorials: Create and manage maintenance windows using the AWS CLI
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This section includes tutorials that help you learn how to use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to do the following:
+ Create and configure a maintenance window
+ View information about a maintenance window
+ View information about maintenance windows tasks and task executions
+ Update a maintenance window
+ Delete a maintenance window

**Keep track of resource IDs**  
As you complete the tasks in these AWS CLI tutorials, keep track of resource IDs generated by the commands you run. You use many of these as input for subsequent commands. For example, when you create the maintenance window, the system provides you with a maintenance window ID in the following format.

```
{
   "WindowId":"mw-0c50858d01EXAMPLE"
}
```

Make a note of the following system-generated IDs because the tutorials in this section use them:
+ `WindowId`
+ `WindowTargetId`
+ `WindowTaskId`
+ `WindowExecutionId`
+ `TaskExecutionId`
+ `InvocationId`
+ `ExecutionId`

You also need the ID of the EC2 instance that you plan to use in the tutorials. For example: `i-02573cafcfEXAMPLE`

**Topics**
+ [Tutorial: Create and configure a maintenance window using the AWS CLI](maintenance-windows-cli-tutorials-create.md)
+ [Tutorial: View information about maintenance windows using the AWS CLI](maintenance-windows-cli-tutorials-describe.md)
+ [Tutorial: View information about tasks and task executions using the AWS CLI](mw-cli-tutorial-task-info.md)
+ [Tutorial: Update a maintenance window using the AWS CLI](maintenance-windows-cli-tutorials-update.md)
+ [Tutorial: Delete a maintenance window using the AWS CLI](mw-cli-tutorial-delete-mw.md)