• 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). 

# Create an AWS Config configuration recorder using Quick Setup
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With Quick Setup, a tool in AWS Systems Manager, you can quickly create a configuration recorder powered by AWS Config. Use the configuration recorder to detect changes in your resource configurations and capture the changes as configuration items. If you're unfamiliar with AWS Config, we recommend learning more about the service by reviewing the content in the *AWS Config Developer Guide* before creating a configuration with Quick Setup. For more information about AWS Config, see [What is AWS Config?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/WhatIsConfig.html) in the *AWS Config Developer Guide*.

By default, the configuration recorder records all supported resources in the AWS Region where AWS Config is running. You can customize the configuration so that only the resource types you specify are recorded. For more information, see [Selecting which resources AWS Config records](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/select-resources.html) in the *AWS Config Developer Guide*.

You're charged service usage fees when AWS Config starts recording configurations. For pricing information, see [AWS Config pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/config/pricing/).

**Note**  
If you've already created a configuration recorder, Quick Setup doesn't stop recording or make any changes to resource types that you're already recording. If you choose to record additional resource types using Quick Setup, the service appends them to your existing recorder groups. Deleting the Quick Setup **Config recording** configuration type doesn't stop the configuration recorder. Changes continue to be recorded, and service usage fees apply until you stop the configuration recorder. To learn more about managing the configuration recorder, see [Managing the Configuration Recorder](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/stop-start-recorder.html) in the *AWS Config Developer Guide*.

To set up AWS Config recording, perform the following tasks in the AWS Systems Manager console.

**To set up AWS Config recording with Quick Setup**

1. Open the AWS Systems Manager console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Quick Setup**.

1. On the **Config Recording** card, choose **Create**.
**Tip**  
If you already have one or more configurations in your account, first choose the **Library** tab or the **Create** button in the **Configurations** section to view the cards.

1. In the **Configuration options** section, do the following:

   1. For **Choose the AWS resource types to record**, specify whether to record all supported resources or only the resource types you choose.

   1. For **Delivery settings, specify whether to create a new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, or choose an existing bucket to send configuration snapshots to. **

   1. For **Notification options**, choose the notification option you prefer. AWS Config uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to notify you about important AWS Config events related to your resources. If you choose the **Use existing SNS topics** option, you must provide the AWS account ID and name of the existing Amazon SNS topic in that account you want to use. If you target multiple AWS Regions, the topic names must be identical in each Region.

1. In the **Schedule** section, choose how frequently you want Quick Setup to remediate changes made to resources that differ from your configuration. The **Default** option runs once. If you don't want Quick Setup to remediate changes made to resources that differ from your configuration, choose **Disable remediation** under **Custom**.

1. In the **Targets** section, choose one of the following to identify the accounts and Regions for recording.
**Note**  
If you are working in a single account, options for working with organizations and organizational units (OUs) are not available. You can choose whether to apply this configuration to all AWS Regions in your account or only the Regions you select.
   + **Entire organization** – All accounts and Regions in your organization.
   + **Custom** – Only the OUs and Regions that you specify.
     + In the **Target OUs** section, select the OUs where you want to allow recording. 
     + In the **Target Regions** section, select the Regions where you want to allow recording. 
   + **Current account** – Only the Regions you specify in the account you are currently signed into are targeted. Choose one of the following:
     + **Current Region** – Only managed nodes in the Region selected in the console are targeted. 
     + **Choose Regions** – Choose the individual Regions to apply the recording configuration to.

1. Choose **Create**.