• 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 and manage maintenance windows using the console
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This section describes how to create, configure, update, and delete maintenance windows using the AWS Systems Manager console. This section also provides information about managing the targets and tasks of a maintenance window.

**Important**  
We recommend that you initially create and configure maintenance windows in a test environment. 

**Before you begin**  
Before you create a maintenance window, you must configure access to Maintenance Windows, a tool in AWS Systems Manager. For more information, see [Setting up Maintenance Windows](setting-up-maintenance-windows.md).

**Topics**
+ [Create a maintenance window using the console](sysman-maintenance-create-mw.md)
+ [Assign targets to a maintenance window using the console](sysman-maintenance-assign-targets.md)
+ [Assign tasks to a maintenance window using the console](sysman-maintenance-assign-tasks.md)
+ [Disable or enable a maintenance window using the console](sysman-maintenance-disable.md)
+ [Update or delete maintenance window resources using the console](sysman-maintenance-update.md)