# Working with associations in Systems Manager
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This section describes how to create and manage State Manager associations by using the Amazon Systems Manager console, the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), and Amazon Tools for PowerShell. 

**Topics**
+ [Understanding targets and rate controls in State Manager associations](systems-manager-state-manager-targets-and-rate-controls.md)
+ [Creating associations](state-manager-associations-creating.md)
+ [Editing and creating a new version of an association](state-manager-associations-edit.md)
+ [Deleting associations](systems-manager-state-manager-delete-association.md)
+ [Running Auto Scaling groups with associations](systems-manager-state-manager-asg.md)
+ [Viewing association histories](state-manager-associations-history.md)
+ [Working with associations using IAM](systems-manager-state-manager-iam.md)