Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

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15. Systems Manager Basics

Brian Beach¹ , Steven Armentrout², Rodney Bozo³ and Emmanuel Tsouris⁴

(1)

Raleigh, NC, USA

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Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

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Sterling, VA, USA

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North Bend, WA, USA

 

Now that you’ve been creating resources in the cloud with PowerShell, you’ll need a simple and secure way to manage all those resources. AWS Systems Manager is a convenient set of management tools that lets you configure and manage your AWS resources at scale.

In this chapter, I’ll explain some basics to get you started with Systems Manager. We’ll begin by going over some important prerequisites, and ...