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What is AWS Systems Manager?
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AWS Systems Manager allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. You can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. With Systems Manager, you can select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch compliance status. You can also take action on each resource group depending on your operational needs. Systems Manager provides a central place to view and manage your AWS resources, so you can have complete visibility and control over your operations.
Who should use AWS Systems Manager?
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If you use multiple AWS services, AWS Systems Manager provides you with a centralized and consistent way to gather operational insights and carry out routine management tasks. You can use AWS Systems Manager to perform routine operations, track your development, test, and production environments, and proactively act on events or other operational incidents. AWS Systems Manager provides an operations complement to the more developer-focused tools you use, such as code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs). Similar to an IDE, AWS Systems Manager integrates a broad range of operations tools.
How do I get started?
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Getting started with AWS Systems Manager is easy. Using the AWS Management Console, navigate to the AWS Systems Manager console. You can create a resource group by using a simple tag query, then begin exploring the integrated set of operational tools that AWS Systems Manager provides.
Which operating systems does AWS Systems Manager support?
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AWS Systems Manager is optimized to manage both Windows and Linux platforms from a single unified experience. Refer to the documentation for more details on managing on-premises systems.
Does AWS Systems Manager manage instances running on-premises?
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Yes, AWS Systems Manager supports managing instances that are running in an on-premises data center. Refer to AWS Systems Manager prerequisites for more details.
How does AWS Systems Manager help manage Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers?
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AWS Systems Manager offers an agent to perform actions inside instances or servers. The agent is completely open-sourced and available on GitHub.
Can I privately access AWS Systems Manager APIs from my VPC without using public IP addresses?
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Yes, you can privately access AWS Systems Manager APIs from your VPC (created using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud by creating VPC Endpoints. With VPC Endpoints, the routing between the VPC and AWS Systems Manager is handled by the AWS network without the need for an internet gateway, NAT gateway, or VPN connection. The latest generation of VPC Endpoints used by AWS Systems Manager are powered by AWS PrivateLink, a technology that enables private connectivity between AWS services using Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) with private IP addresses in your VPCs. To learn more about PrivateLink, visit the PrivateLink documentation.
In what Regions is AWS Systems Manager available?
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See the AWS Regions Table for AWS Systems Manager Region availability.
Can I still use Amazon EC2 Systems Manager through the EC2 console?
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Yes. Users who are accustomed to using EC2 Systems Manager in the EC2 console will find a link to AWS Systems Manager. Amazon EC2 Systems Manager services are still easy to discover and use. AWS Systems Manager offers a new user experience for these tools.
What sorts of insights can I gather through AWS Systems Manager?
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AWS Systems Manager overlays information from multiple AWS services. These cross-service insights are surfaced through multiple native dashboards. AWS Systems Manager also embeds Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and lets you reuse your existing dashboards or build new ones.
What are built-in insights?
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AWS Systems Manager’s built-in insights are dashboards that include recent API calls through AWS CloudTrail, recent configuration changes through AWS Config, Instance software inventory listings, instance patch compliance views, and instance configuration compliance views. You can filter these account-level insights to reflect the members of a particular resource group. These dashboards also show recent event logs through AWS Personal Health Dashboard and optimization recommendations through AWS Trusted Advisor.
What is a managed instance?
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A managed instance is any on-premises server or Amazon EC2 instance that can be managed using AWS Systems Manager. A managed instance can be a physical server or virtual machine in your on-premises data center or even another cloud provider.
How do I set up a managed instance?
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You can set up an EC2 instance as a managed instance by installing the Systems Manager agent and attaching an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) instance profile to the instance, which gives Systems Manager permission to perform actions on your instance. To register servers or virtual machines outside of Amazon EC2, you can create an activation.
Do some operating systems already include the Systems Manager agent?
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The Systems Manager agent is installed by default on the AWS Windows AMIs, on the Amazon Linux AMI, and available on the Amazon Linux repo. You can also install the agent on other supported operating systems.
What are AWS Systems Manager activations?
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AWS Systems Manager activations enable hybrid and cross-cloud management. Using AWS Systems Manager activations, you can easily register any server, whether physical or virtual to be managed by AWS Systems Manager.
