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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Managing instance patches using patch baseline and compliance


Regularly patching your instances with the right set of security patches is an important activity that can take up a lot of time and effort if performed manually on each individual instance. Luckily, AWS provides a really efficient and easy way of automating the patching of your managed instances using the concept of Patch Manager services, provided as an out-of-the-box capability with SSM.

As an administrator, all you need to do is scan your instances for missing patches and leverage Patch Manager to automatically remediate the issues by installing the required set of patches. You can, alternatively, even schedule the patching of your managed instance or group of instances with the help of SSM's maintenance window tasks.

In this section, we will explore a quick and easy way of creating a unique patch baseline for our Dev instances and later create and associate a maintenance window for this, all using the EC2 Management dashboard...