# AWS SAM CLI management
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This section contains information on ways you can manage and customize your version of the AWS SAM CLI. This includes information on how you can configure AWS SAM CLI command parameter values using a project-level configuration file. It also includes information on managing different versions of your AWS SAM CLI, setting AWS credentials so that AWS SAM can make calls to AWS services on your behalf, and different ways you can customize AWS SAM. This section ends with a section on general AWS SAM troubleshooting.

**Topics**
+ [AWS SAM CLI configuration file](serverless-sam-cli-config.md)
+ [Managing AWS SAM CLI versions](manage-sam-cli-versions.md)
+ [Setting up AWS credentials](serverless-getting-started-set-up-credentials.md)
+ [Telemetry in the AWS SAM CLI](serverless-sam-telemetry.md)
+ [AWS SAM CLI troubleshooting](sam-cli-troubleshooting.md)