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AWS Systems Manager

Score7 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

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What is AWS Systems Manager?

AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch compliance status.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features AWS Systems Manager has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 8 ratings of AWS Systems Manager's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

    Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels

    Category average: 8.5

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.4

  • Cloud Management Security

    Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.2

  • Automation and Orchestration

    Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management

    Category average: 8.3

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.1

Reviews

What users are saying about AWS Systems Manager.
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AWS system manager helps Ec2 management easier

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aws system manager helps team to reduce the time spend on managing Ec2 instances.We have a scheduled process running everyday that copy new files to more than 100 instances . With AWS System manager, we were able to the copy process as part of the normal update process process and it was very easy to copy the files and doesn't even require SSH access to the instances. We don't need to update anything even if we change the instances as we can target based on the resource tags.

Pros

  • Copy files to a group of instance with particular tag
  • Enable CW agent and push metrics to CW
  • Easy to install software in a group of instances.

Cons

  • I would like to see the Search feature improved a bit more.
  • UI is little bit confusing initially

Return on Investment

  • Reduced team's time spent on EC2 management
  • Patch management
  • Remote access

Alternatives Considered

Syxsense Manage

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon S3 Glacier