• 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). 

# Creating a patch policy
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A patch policy is a configuration you set up using Quick Setup, a tool in AWS Systems Manager. Patch policies provide more extensive and more centralized control over your patching operations than is available with other methods of configuring patching. A patch policy defines the schedule and baseline to use when automatically patching your nodes and applications.

For more information, see the following topics:
+ [Patch policy configurations in Quick Setup](patch-manager-policies.md)
+ [Configure patching for instances in an organization using a Quick Setup patch policy](quick-setup-patch-manager.md)