The various capabilities of AWS Systems Manager
DevOps is a marriage of two responsibilities: development and operations. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) focuses on the operations part of those responsibilities, giving you a vast array of tools to use for everyday operations tasks. These tools range from creating predefined runbooks to quickly, easily, and repetitively performing functions on your instances, whether they're Linux or Windows instances. Systems Manager can also provide you with an interface to track your resources or groups of resources from a common place.
As an added benefit, Systems Manager not only helps with your instances in the AWS Cloud, but it can also help manage your servers on-premises by installing the lightweight agent on those servers and allowing that agent to communicate back to the AWS account.
Key features and benefits of Systems Manager
Systems Manager is not just one service; instead, it is a whole set of tools for you to use. You may not...