AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) together provide automated, scalable, and secure infrastructure management. SSM Agent enables configuration management, patching, and terminal access for EC2 instances managed by ASGs, which automatically scale instances based on demand. By integrating AWS SSM with your existing enterprise workload automation solution, you are instantly inheriting the advanced capabilities of your enterprise solution to deliver your digital transformation quickly and successfully. By extending your existing enterprise automation to AWS SSM, you maintain end-to-end visibility, regain centralized command and control, alerting, SLA management, reporting and auditing.
Benefits and Use Cases
- Issue a command to all EC2 instances in the AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG) without looping through each instance.
- Gain centralized control over your entire fleet of AWS compute instances without the need for SSH access.
- Reduce manual interventions by triggering package updates, patching processes and runbooks in an ASG.
Example Use Case: Security & Compliance Auditing
Apply and maintain consistent security policies with less effort by executing commands to run security vulnerability scans, verify firewall configurations, or check for specific file hashes across your entire fleet.
Automic Features
- Run and Monitor AWS SSM jobs to completion
- View execution log for problem diagnosis
- Alert on failure of AWS SSM jobs
- Incorporate AWS SSM processing in existing enterprise automation workflows including dependency enforcement