Understanding Microsoft Patch Tuesday

In the Microsoft ecosystem, Patch Tuesday is an unofficial name, which was created because Microsoft releases patches on the second Tuesday of each month, and critical security patches are released as out-of-band patches. Despite the name, you should rely on more than Patch Tuesday. Instead, you should install the RSS feed from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) to get daily information about Microsoft products’ vulnerabilities and patches.

Aside from security patches, it is essential to also keep an eye on the new features and improvements released every month for Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2020. Microsoft consistently releases new features and improvements for Windows containers, and these are installed monthly on the Amazon-optimized Windows Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. However, AWS doesn’t release any technical bulletin of what updates were installed on the AMI. Therefore...