Important Note: You will create AWS resources during the workshop which will incur cost in your AWS account. It is recommended to clean-up the resources as soon as you finish the workshop to minimize the cost.

Securely Manage Private VPC EC2 Instances using Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager provides a unified user interface to view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows to automate operational tasks across the AWS resources. Systems Manager enables resource and application management and makes it easy to operate and manage the infrastructure securely at scale. Systems Manager can manage resources like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EKS clusters, Amazon S3 buckets, or Amazon RDS instances.

In this workshop, you manage EC2 instances deployed in a private subnet using AWS Systems Manager.

The following diagram shows the scenario you are going to build. Start the workshop

AWS Systems Manager