• 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). 

# Reviewing and approving or rejecting change templates
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**Change Manager availability change**  
AWS Systems Manager Change Manager will no longer be open to new customers starting November 7, 2025. If you would like to use Change Manager, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see [AWS Systems Manager Change Manager availability change](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/change-manager-availability-change.html). 

If you're specified as a reviewer for change templates in Change Manager, a tool in AWS Systems Manager, you're notified when a new change template, or new version of a change template, is awaiting your review. An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic sends the notifications.

**Note**  
This functionality depends on whether your account has been configured to use an Amazon SNS topic to send change template review notifications. For information about specifying a template reviewer notification topic, see [Task 1: Configuring Change Manager user identity management and template reviewers](change-manager-account-setup.md#cm-configure-account-task-1).

To review the change template, follow the link in your notification, sign in to the AWS Management Console, and follow the steps in this procedure.

**To review and approve or reject a change template**

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 **Change Manager**.

1. In the **Change templates** section at the bottom of the **Overview** tab, choose the number in **Pending review**.

1. In the **Change templates** list, locate and choose the name of change template to review.

1. In the summary page, review the proposed content of the change template and do one of the following:
   + To approve the change template, which allows it to be used in change requests, choose **Approve**.
   + To reject the change template, which prevents it from being used in change requests, choose **Reject**.