Operations on EC2 instances

• Possible list of operations on EC2 instances
  • OS updates
  • Login into EC2 and fix/trouble shoot
  • Starting/Stopping ec2 instances on Some Schedule
• Lab Setup:
  • Let me create two ec2 instances
  • While creating ec2 instances i will add the tag Environment = Dev, Project = QTLearning
    
• Now performing common administrative tasks on multiple machines belonging to different project teams is a challenge.
• AWS has EC2 Systems Manager
  

Systems Manager

• Systems manager gives central access for operational activities
  
• Now Lets perform quick setup
  
• The Systems Manager interacts with SSM agents on the Ec2 instances, On-prem servers etc to perform operational activites
  
  
  
  
  
• Now Lets Navigate to Node Management => Session Manager
  
• To view your instances, we need to create IAM Role Refer Here
• Run Command => This helps in running a low level linux/windows command on group of ec2 instances.
• For us to make this stuff work, we need to configure ec2 instances with necessary permissions Refer Here