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Manage EC2 with Systems Manager

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Manage EC2 with Systems Manager

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- [Instructor] In our two running EC2 instances, we would have to connect to each instance individually and run Linux terminal commands to install package updates and keep our operating system up to date with patches. But how would you do this with 50 or 100 instances? What if your fleet of servers maintains numerous services that all have to be monitored? Systems Manager gives you a suite of tools for managing a fleet of instances. The Node Management section of Systems Manager will notify you if one set of servers is, say, out of compliance, if one of your servers is missing required hardware, or having operational issues, or needs new patches to be applied to it. Session Manager can give you a secure way to access your EC2 instances. You can always use Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools to apply automations across a fleet of servers, but Run Command will give you another way to do this from within AWS.…

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