• 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). 

# Working with associations in Systems Manager
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This section describes how to create and manage State Manager associations by using the AWS Systems Manager console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS Tools for PowerShell. 

**Topics**
+ [Understanding targets and rate controls in State Manager associations](systems-manager-state-manager-targets-and-rate-controls.md)
+ [Creating associations](state-manager-associations-creating.md)
+ [Editing and creating a new version of an association](state-manager-associations-edit.md)
+ [Deleting associations](systems-manager-state-manager-delete-association.md)
+ [Running Auto Scaling groups with associations](systems-manager-state-manager-asg.md)
+ [Viewing association histories](state-manager-associations-history.md)
+ [Working with associations using IAM](systems-manager-state-manager-iam.md)