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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

Introducing Run Command


Run Command is an awesome feature of Systems Manager, which basically allows you to execute remote commands over your managed fleet of EC2 instances. You can perform a vast variety of automated administrative tasks, such as installing software or patching your operating systems, executing shell commands, managing local groups and users, and much more! But that's not all! The best part of using this feature is that it allows you to have a seamless experience when executing scripts, even over your on-premises Windows and Linux operating systems, whether they be running on VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or any other platforms. And the cost of all this? Well, it's absolutely free! You only pay for the EC2 instances and other AWS resources that you create and nothing more!

Here's a brief list of a few commonly predefined commands provided by Run Command along with a short description:

  • AWS-RunShellScript: Executes shell scripts on remote Linux instances
  • AWS-UpdateSSMAgent...