• The Amazon 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.amazonaws.cn/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Tutorials
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The following tutorials help you to use Amazon Systems Manager Automation to address common use cases. These tutorials demonstrate how to use your own runbooks, predefined runbooks provided by Automation, and other Systems Manager tools with other Amazon Web Services services.

**Contents**
+ [Updating AMIs](automation-tutorial-update-ami.md)
  + [Update a Linux AMI](automation-tutorial-update-patch-linux-ami.md)
  + [Update a Linux AMI (Amazon CLI)](automation-tutorial-update-ami.md#update-patch-linux-ami-cli)
  + [Update a Windows Server AMI](automation-tutorial-update-patch-windows-ami.md)
  + [Update a golden AMI using Automation, Amazon Lambda, and Parameter Store](automation-tutorial-update-patch-golden-ami.md)
    + [Task 1: Create a parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store](automation-tutorial-update-patch-golden-ami.md#create-parameter-ami)
    + [Task 2: Create an IAM role for Amazon Lambda](automation-tutorial-update-patch-golden-ami.md#create-lambda-role)
    + [Task 3: Create an Amazon Lambda function](automation-tutorial-update-patch-golden-ami.md#create-lambda-function)
    + [Task 4: Create a runbook and patch the AMI](automation-tutorial-update-patch-golden-ami.md#create-custom-ami-update-runbook)
  + [Updating AMIs using Automation and Jenkins](automation-tutorial-update-patch-ami-jenkins-integration.md)
  + [Updating AMIs for Auto Scaling groups](automation-tutorial-update-patch-windows-ami-autoscaling.md)
    + [Create the **PatchAMIAndUpdateASG** runbook](automation-tutorial-update-patch-windows-ami-autoscaling.md#create-autoscaling-update-runbook)
+ [Using Amazon Web Services Support self-service runbooks](automation-tutorial-support-runbooks.md)
  + [Run the EC2Rescue tool on unreachable instances](automation-ec2rescue.md)
    + [How it works](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-how)
    + [Before you begin](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-begin)
      + [Granting `AWSSupport-EC2Rescue` permissions to perform actions on your instances](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-access)
        + [Granting permissions by using IAM policies](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-access-iam)
        + [Granting permissions by using an Amazon CloudFormation template](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-access-cfn)
    + [Running the Automation](automation-ec2rescue.md#automation-ec2rescue-executing)
  + [Reset passwords and SSH keys on EC2 instances](automation-ec2reset.md)
    + [How it works](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-how)
    + [Before you begin](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-begin)
      + [Granting AWSSupport-EC2Rescue permissions to perform actions on your instances](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-access)
        + [Granting permissions by using IAM policies](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-access-iam)
        + [Granting permissions by using an Amazon CloudFormation template](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-access-cfn)
    + [Running the Automation](automation-ec2reset.md#automation-ec2reset-executing)
+ [Passing data to Automation using input transformers](automation-tutorial-eventbridge-input-transformers.md)