• 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). 

# Working with public parameters in Parameter Store
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Some Amazon Web Services services publish information about common artifacts as Amazon Systems Manager *public* parameters. For example, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service publishes information about Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) as public parameters.

**Topics**
+ [Discovering public parameters in Parameter Store](parameter-store-finding-public-parameters.md)
+ [Calling AMI public parameters in Parameter Store](parameter-store-public-parameters-ami.md)
+ [Calling the ECS optimized AMI public parameter in Parameter Store](parameter-store-public-parameters-ecs.md)
+ [Calling the EKS optimized AMI public parameter in Parameter Store](parameter-store-public-parameters-eks.md)
+ [Calling public parameters for Amazon Web Services services, Regions, endpoints, Availability Zones, local zones, and Wavelength Zones in Parameter Store](parameter-store-public-parameters-global-infrastructure.md)