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Managing Non-EC2 Servers using AWS Systems Manager

2023-06-21T02:38:50+00:00

Introduction AWS Systems Manager is like a Swiss army knife for your cloud infrastructure, bundling a wide range of features into a single service. You can use it to effectively manage not only your entire AWS ecosystem but also extends its capabilities to your on-premises infrastructure. Here's a quick rundown of what it offers: Operations Management: AWS Systems Manager collects and aggregates operational data, offering you insights for understanding your system's overall performance and maintaining consistent performance and security profiles. Application Management: This tool aids in automating the packaging and deployment of applications. Its Parameter Store securely manages secrets and [...]

Managing Non-EC2 Servers using AWS Systems Manager2023-06-21T02:38:50+00:00

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager

2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

AWS Systems Manager’s Fleet Manager is a useful tool for managing Amazon EC2 instances on your account. It allows you to establish a private session to your instances, view detailed information about the instance, run automation such as patch installations, or execute specific Run commands to the instance’s operating system. It can also be used to manage on-premises servers or virtual machines. Using AWS Systems Manager tools requires that an IAM role is created and attached as an instance profile to your EC2 instances. It also requires that the Systems Manager Agent is installed on the instances. The Systems Manager [...]

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

Secure EC2 Instances Connections Leveraging Session Manager

2023-03-20T01:27:23+00:00

As more workloads are being migrated to the cloud, security should always be a top priority. Some organizations fail to consider security and therefore paid the price of having their workloads compromised. For example, an EC2 instance that has its SSH inbound port open to the world, therefore, providing unrestricted access to attackers globally. Luckily, AWS has a service that allows you to connect to your EC2 instances without opening any inbound port, eliminating this particular security risk, and that is AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Session Manager is a fully managed AWS Systems Manager capability. You can use an [...]

Secure EC2 Instances Connections Leveraging Session Manager2023-03-20T01:27:23+00:00

AWS Systems Manager

2024-01-18T07:50:28+00:00

Bookmarks Features Capabilities Monitoring Security Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Systems Manager Cheat Sheet Allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. Features Create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. You can select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch compliance status. Collects information about your instances and the software installed on them. Allows you to safely [...]

AWS Systems Manager2024-01-18T07:50:28+00:00

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