Summary
In this chapter, we looked at some of the tools that can help make the operations part of our DevOps role easier. This included AWS Systems Manager, which, in and of itself, provides a variety of services to help you accomplish tasks. These range from being able to quickly create a session on a remote instance to creating repeatable processes and installing software or gathering files from an instance. We also learned that Systems Manager works with both compute instances in the cloud as well as servers on-premises.
We also examined the AWS Config service. We saw how it can keep a timeline of the state of supported AWS resources. We also looked at how Config rules work and how they can be used to flag resources that don't meet the standards we have set for our organization.
In the next chapter, we will look at using Amazon Inspector. This is a service that helps you proactively find security vulnerabilities in your account.
