intermediate~2h

AWS Systems Manager

Operational tooling for managing fleets of EC2 instances and on-premises servers — patching, secure shell-free access, and centralized configuration storage.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain what Session Manager solves and why it's preferred over SSH/RDP
  • Explain Parameter Store's role for centralized configuration and secrets
  • Explain what Patch Manager automates
  • Explain the role of the SSM Agent in enabling these capabilities

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ec2-security-networkingcloudwatch-monitoringkms-encryption