• 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). 

# Step 1: Create an AWS Config connector
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The AWS Config connector sets up the credential exchange between AWS and Azure and enables AWS Config to record Azure resource state. You must create this before creating the Systems Manager Cloud Connector.

**Note**  
The AWS Config connector automatically creates a service-linked role for federation. You do not need to create a separate IAM role for this step.

**To create an AWS Config connector for Azure**

1. Create the AWS Config connector. Replace {{TENANT\_ID}} with your Azure tenant ID and {{CLIENT\_ID}} with the **Config Application (Client) ID** — the application (client) ID of the AWS Config Azure AD app that you noted in the Azure prerequisites (Step 6).

   ```
   aws configservice put-connector \
       --connector-configuration '{
           "azure": {
               "tenantIdentifier": "{{TENANT_ID}}",
               "clientIdentifier": "{{CLIENT_ID}}"
           }
       }'
   ```

   Note the `Arn` from the response — you need it in the next step.

1. Confirm the connector was created:

   ```
   aws configservice list-connectors
   ```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Systems Manager. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query systems-manager` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).