Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Reviews & Product Details

It is integrated with kms so you can secure a parameter such as api key or passwords instead of having them unsecure in the function or as a environment variable to the function. It is also versioned if something change we can check the changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Default key for kms should not be a option as it is not secure. Anybody or a function with parameter store access can dump the secured entries if you dont have separate kms keys with separate access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Systems Manager gives me visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so I can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows me to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We could make updates to running instances via chef solo by invoking it using SSM, but we like the instances to be as immutable as possible - makes for very easy rollbacks and reduces the amount of unintentional change in the environment. If we need to make an update we build and test a completely new image and then deploy new instances based on it rather than updating running instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to perform compliance checks. The ability to collect system inventory, including custom inventory. Patch Management capabilities. The ability to implement in hybrid environments. The ability to customize Documents. The ability to initiate commands from the AWS Dashboard. State Manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of integration with other services within AWS GovCloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can remote access machines from the AWS console directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that it is VERY hard to find the machine that I want to remotely access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Protera Technologies, specailizes in managed hosting services for SAP,. AWS EC2 allows our team to provision and right size compute resources on-demand. AWS EC2 gives access with no delay to the compute resourecs needed, and we only pay for what we use. This is a landslide change when compared to traditional hosting that required weeks of planning and deployment activities for even simple HW changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In some cases upgrading or transitioning from from EC2 familly of instances to another has some adveser cost impact Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 instances can range from free to expensive depending on what you want to do. I enjoyed the range and ease of deployment. Free tier is awesome for what you get access to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The range. For new folks, the amount of choices is overwhelming. But if you like lots of options, it's not really a problem. There has to be some familiarity with the console to get started. THerea re so many choices, it can be hard to decide what you want to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Amazon Web Services because is an excelent tool both for people and for companies, because a system or an application can be deployed in an very fast enviroment like EC2, and using any of their existing tools, such as S3. AWS is more reliable and also secure as most of the business data information would be passed and so it should be properly encrypted and follow other security measures to prevent any data from getting leaked while communicating between the applications. AWS is more flexible and scalable with more bandwidth and storage capabilities. AWS is highly customizable and is easy to use, the learning curve for its main functions is relatively easy and well documented, application programming interfaces (APIs) are accessible and also is available in many regions. It has variety of tools at your disposal and the S3 interface is being well laid out and easy to organize. It constantly innovates and iterates, announcing new features several times per year and the price is very competitive in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you manage many accounts AWS, management can become somewhat disorganized bacause it does not offer many tools for internal control, also it has many tools at your disposal, but you may not know them all. They could see how to promote and introduce the tools that you use less to display its advantages. While the documentation is robust it is sometimes difficult to get access to an actual person who might be able to help with the design of your application and what Amazon service is most applicable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can now automatically run powershell scripts across our entire fleet of instances at the same time! Additionally it can support automatically running tasks in "maintenance windows" replacing the need for hours of manual effort spent after hours on the weekend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parameter store is a little difficult to navigate through. Believe improvements may be coming to that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SSM allows us to manage servers and jobs at massive scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is difficult to re-run a failed job. It requires that the job be re-instantiated, which is difficult when iterating rapidly in sandbox-type scenarios. Also, I wish there was a way to run a job on a set number or percentage of servers that match a set of tags. The use case is running a job that needs to run only once and with auto-scaling there may be many servers running at one time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 lets us scale to use and pay for just he compute power we need. We saved over 60% compared to hosting our own equipment in a data center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to dislike. Some extra steps are needed for on-the-road remote access unless you have a VPN solution. Still, better than the alternatives! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the integration found between run command, automations, maintenance windows, and parameter store. I have found these components work well together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface in the aws console is awful servers cannot be sorted by name when servers are sorted only 1 server's information can then be viewed logs do not sort easily 10 items per page limit adds unneeded frustration. Please redesign the UI to reduce the number of clicks to get information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used to have in house scripts used to run short CLI commands across a large number of instances. RunCommand gives us the capability to manage, throttle, and audit exactly how that particular script runs which makes it very powerful and useful. The sessions manager also gives us the ability to remove SSH access to our instances and use sesions manager instead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I know that new features are still being added but I wish I could more seamlessly use the AWS SSM to reconnect to existing sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 allows us to not have to worry about the datacenter side of our infrastructure. It makes things much easier to scale and allows us to provide better support to our developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 definitely takes some time to get used to after having had physical access to the equipment itself.. The dashboard is easy to use but has many options that sometimes can confuse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of deploying servers and being able to back them up. There is minimal latency and it really helps us to stand up new services and test applications on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isnt anything in particular that I can think of that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Works like Puppet/Chef -remote control of system by allowing tasks to be done for on-premise and hosted servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning curve, not all system types supported, some templated wizards for common tasks would be good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

scalability and ability to spin up easily is aplus and abolity to use only when needed is a huige infrastructiure help. The fact that we don't have tp purchase servers is aplus to company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cost increses and adds up before you realize. Warning and heads up will help, abilituy to see what the useage is and then able to scale wil lhelp Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Convenience of tools for imaging, spectrum of sizes to choose from, ease of changing hardware spec on the fly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The console interface is very restrictive. It is difficult to switch between regions for easily managing multiple environments. There is no way to recover from hardware "faults" that may occur on start-up, requiring a very expensive process to recover machines that may only need to do a quick fsck scan, for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to manage EC2 through API, but also the capabilities in the UI to deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of configuring options in the UI when displaying Instances. For example, being able to display and sort on IP address (public and private) when dealing with a large list of Instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works, for moving at a fast pace that works with your customers needs and time line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing Tags from OS metadata in OS, would be ideal for adding automation and vlidation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are tons of tools for any imaginable feature who wish to expand. The elasticity feature is also very useful. It gives us the ability to save money on resources not we don't need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't think of anything right now. It is working just as we had envisioned it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EC2 System manager simplifies it all without the need to invest more. We tried several tools in our cloud adoption process, but assessing EC2 manager was definitively the smartest choice to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you start growing you'll find your own needs, you'll outgrow the tool really quickly. But the product is evolving, so you can go back to it really easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is centralized. The EC2 manager is one spot to manage and compare performance of different EC2 instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product is a little price., Would like to see EC2 be more of a service like lambda where everything is managed on it'w own Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ease to launch up the instances in minutes and reserve instances as needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there isn't much to disklike as the product is bulletproof Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was fast for me, a new user, to spin up new vms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find there's a lot of back and forth with the documentation. I wish the page would have something to help new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Systems Manager is a very under used product at AWS and it is quintinessential to using this service to manage of fleet of instances as cattle, verses Pet care (SSH/RDP care, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The console is still immature. the SSM agent can be difficult to get rolling on existing servers don't have the agent installed (Red Hat). Session Manager is buggy/immature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.