AWS Systems Manager | State Manager Flashcards
What are the types of schedules I can choose for my AWS Systems Manager maintenance windows?
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AWS Systems Manager maintenance windows can be scheduled for a recurring date (e.g., weekly on Tuesdays at 22:00:00 or first Sunday of every month at 22:00:00). You can define your schedule using cron or rate expression.
What is AWS Systems Manager state manager?
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AWS Systems Manager provides configuration management, which helps you maintain consistent configuration of your Amazon EC2 or on-premises instances. With Systems Manager, you can control configuration details such as server configurations, anti-virus definitions, firewall settings, and more. You can define configuration policies for your servers through the AWS Management Console or use existing scripts, PowerShell modules, or Ansible playbooks directly from GitHub or Amazon S3 buckets. Systems Manager automatically applies your configurations across your instances at a time and frequency that you define. You can query Systems Manager at any time to view the status of your instance configurations, giving you on-demand visibility into your compliance status.
Why should I use AWS Systems Manager state manager?
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Ensuring that the infrastructure that is powering your applications is consistent is a challenge. AWS Systems Manager allows you to create policies, reapply these policies to prevent configuration drift, and monitor the status of your intended state.
How do I create my policies?
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Policies can be easily created through AWS Systems Manager documents. In addition, you also have predefined configurations that you can use for installing applications, joining instances to domain and so on.
What are the targets that can be configured?
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You have the flexibility to target instances or tags. This means you have the flexibility to have specific configurations for groups of instances such as web servers.
