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