AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Working with automation documents

As discussed briefly during the introduction to the State Manager service, automation documents are simple JSON-based documents that are designed to help you get started with the automation service quickly and efficiently. You can leverage the predefined automation documents or, alternatively, create your own set. In this section, we will look at how to leverage an existing automation document to patch your Dev EC2 instance and create a new AMI from it:

1. From the EC2 Management Console, select the Documents option from the Systems Manager Shared Resources section.
2. Using the Documents dashboard, you can filter and view only the documents that have Automation set as the Document Type.

3. Select AWS-UpdateLinuxAmi ...