Posted On: Nov 17, 2023
Automation, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, enables you to automate routine operations tasks using runbooks. Today, AWS Systems Manager announces enhanced automation actions such as loops, runbook variables, type transformations, and output filtering. This launch simplifies the runbook authoring experience and eliminates the need to to write custom scripts to perform these actions.
To implement more sophisticated coding logic, you can loop steps until a desired result is met. You can also define, update, and reference a custom runbook variable without having to specify an associated step name. For more advanced customization of runbooks, you can apply filters to narrow down step outputs, and transform step outputs to different data types, such as converting a string to an integer.
This new feature enhancement is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Systems Manager is offered, except Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. To learn more about AWS Systems Manager, visit the product detail page.