Other Capabilities of Systems Manger
- Patch Manger:
- We create Patch Baselines
- Schedules for applying patches are created
- Works for both Linux and windows
- Patching can be completely done from cli.
- Refer Here
- Session Manager:
- Manages connectivity to Ec2 instances with out impacting security group rules.
- State Manager:
- Deploy the configurations/applications using the state manager playbooks (yaml).
Backup Service
- AWS Backup is a managed Service to perform Backups.
- Backup can be created for storages such as:
- EBS
- EFS
- RDS
- Dynamo DB
- Storage Gateway
- Workflow
- Create a Backup Vault
- Create a Backup Plan. Mention number of days the back up has to be retained, transfer to cold storage and time to create backup
