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Author: Justin Thomas
Justin Thomas is a Senior Cloud Support Engineer at AWS Premium Support, specializing in AWS Systems Manager, Linux, and shell scripting. He has a passion for automating tasks for customers and finding opportunities to simplify the way teams operate their AWS workloads. Outside of work, Justin enjoys time with friends and family, trying new food, and watching movies.
Build a Multi Account Patch Compliance Dashboard with Kiro Specs
Introduction Robust patch management is essential for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager provides a full-featured patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to managed nodes across AWS accounts, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales across dozens or […]
Automate AWS Systems Manager activation for hybrid-managed node registration
AWS Systems Manager (formerly known as SSM) is an AWS service that you can use to view and control your servers on AWS cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Systems Manager makes it easy to manage a hybrid environment. To set up servers and virtual machines (VMs) in your hybrid environment as Systems Manager managed instances, you […]
Automate updating approval cut off dates for Patch Manager Patch Baselines
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager helps AWS customers manage and automate the process of patching their Linux and Windows managed nodes in AWS and hybrid environments. It provides various options and allows greater control over which patches are approved or rejected during installation using patch baselines. One parameter of patch baseline approval rules is the Auto […]