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AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager

- [Instructor] Administrators are often responsible for key operational activities, such as maintaining an inventory of assets, remotely managing assets, installing required software, applying missing patches and more. AWS Systems Manager can help with these and a variety of other tasks. AWS Systems Manager is a service that allows you to view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate operational tasks. With Systems Manager, you can centrally define the configuration options and policies for your managed instances. A managed instance is a machine configured for use with Systems Manager. You can identify resources that are out of compliance and corrective action. You can automate a variety of maintenance tasks such as patching your managed instances. You can create runbook style documents that define the actions to perform on your managed instances. You can group AWS resources together using different…

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