Tag: AWS Systems Manager

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.

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

While Quick Start reference architectures eliminate code that customers would have to write themselves, technology partners actively contribute to improve the standards and feature sets. As an example, read about how Alfresco achieved key enhancements to the Amazon EKS Architecture Quick Start.

This second post in a two-part series covers how you can streamline your automated deployments by orchestrating Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration within AWS Systems Manager Automation documents.

In this first post of a two-part series, read about the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager together to streamline deployment, and outputting logs to Amazon CloudWatch for centralized troubleshooting.