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Configuring IAM Roles and policies for SSM

First, we need to create and configure IAM Roles for our EC2 Systems Manager to process and execute commands over our EC2 instances. You can either use the Systems Manager's managed policies or alternatively create your own custom roles with specific permissions. For this part, we will be creating a custom role and policy.

To get started, we first create a custom IAM policy for Systems Manager managed instances:

1. Log in to your AWS account and select the IAM option from the main dashboard, or alternatively, open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
2. Next, from the navigation pane, select Policies. This will bring up a list of existing policies currently provided and supported by ...