Category: AWS Systems Manager

In this post, AWS and Ziff Davis collaborated to tackle server management challenges by implementing an automated solution using EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager. The solution addressed issues of inconsistent configurations, undocumented processes, and manual patching, resulting in improved efficiency, consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities for Ziff Davis’s virtual phone number services.

Learn to use CloudFormation custom resources in multistack AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) applications to read parameters across AWS Regions.

Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.

In this blog post, we discuss an operation that reduces the risk of downloading new packages from public repositories.

Use a distributed Microsoft Active Directory to authenticate workloads on AWS.

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.