In this recipe, we only used one of the features of the AWS Systems Manager, namely the Parameter Store. Let's quickly go through some more important features of the AWS Systems Manager:
- AWS Systems Manager allows us to group resources such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS instances, and more. After we've done this, we can perform actions, such as installing a patch across a group.
- We can use the parameter in the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store from various services, such as EC2, Lambda, CloudFormaton, and more. We can also use the parameter in a systems manager run command.
- The EC2 run command can be used to automate admin tasks and configuration changes across a group of EC2 machines.
- The EC2 role for a simple systems ...