Tag: AWS Systems Manager

Overview A key benefit of using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is the ability to pay only for the services you consume. This granular control and elastic model enables you to achieve substantial savings compared to on-premise infrastructure. The practice of ensuring you are getting the most value for your investment, and a foundational pillar […]

System Administrators face a never-ending list of tasks in IT organizations, with one of the most critical being the installation and updating of software packages. This process is essential for maintaining a secure posture across systems. However, as the number of servers grows, manually managing updates becomes increasingly time-consuming and inefficient. The challenge we’re addressing […]

An effective patch management is foremost for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides a comprehensive patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to your nodes deployed on AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales, tracking and reporting on […]

This blog post will guide you through a quick start on using Amazon Q Developer for operational investigations on AWS. We’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up this powerful AI-assisted troubleshooting tool . You’ll discover how to configure user permissions, manage data access, set up encryption, and start your first investigation. We […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

Has the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) running on your critical servers on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) lost healthy connection to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for some reason and you wanted to be proactively notified when this happens? Do you wish to improve observability of your SSM Agent status and […]

Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB), one of Germany’s largest direct banks with over five million customers. In 2023, DKB migrated their back-office IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This Included their diverse infrastructure, backup, networking, and both Windows and Linux servers, while managing risks like downtime, data integrity, and security vulnerabilities. Customers in regulated industries […]

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]

Earlier this year, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store launched a feature that now allows you to share advanced parameters with other AWS accounts, enabling you to centrally manage your configuration data in a multi-account environment. Today, many customers have workloads in multiple AWS accounts that require shared, synchronized configuration data. Now, you can maintain a […]