AWS Systems Manager is a unified management service that helps you automate operational tasks, maintain security and compliance, and manage infrastructure at scale across AWS and hybrid environments. It provides capabilities like automation, patch management, session access, inventory collection, and parameter storage without needing direct access to the underlying servers.
In this Challenge Cloud Lab, you’ll build a fully automated pipeline to provision, configure, and patch a fleet of EC2 servers. You’ll start by defining the necessary IAM role to enable Systems Manager integration, then author an Automation runbook to handle instance creation and setup. Finally, you’ll schedule those instances into a recurring maintenance window to ensure they remain up to date, all without manual intervention.
