AWS Systems Manager Reviews & Product Details

AWS Systems Manager is a single platform for centralized management of our entire AWS infrastructure. Using Systems Manager, we can automate many of our day-to-day tasks.

The thing I liked most in AWS Systems Manager is Session Manager. This feature allows us to access a server without needing to open any ports or use key-based access, which helps keep everything private and secure. It also includes a feature called Patch Manager; with this, we can patch the OS across all our servers without needing to log in to each one. This saves a lot of time and reduces the hassle.

Setup is also very easy: we just need to install the SSM agent and assign the required roles and policies. It not only automates tasks, but it also understands our setup and gives recommendations on which patches we should actually install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although setting up and using AWS systems manager is very easy but sometime you might have a use to have access to a private ec2 instance where it wont have connectivity to internet in such case we need to create a private endpoint to Systems manager and configure the route by also ensuring the server already have SSM agent installed and have required policy this setup might feel little overwhelming for newcommers but AWS has lot of learning materials available to overcome this even though it never usuallly came up with any problem but sometimes troubleshooting might also get tricky. UI also is enriched with features which might be confusing at the beginning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store is its ability to securely centralize application configuration and sensitive parameters without hardcoding them into application code or deployment pipelines. It supports encryption through AWS KMS, versioning, parameter hierarchies, and fine-grained IAM access controls, making configuration management both secure and scalable.

The seamless integration with Lambda, ECS, EC2, and CloudFormation makes it easy to use across different AWS workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store works well for most configuration management needs, its advanced secret rotation capabilities are more limited than those of AWS Secrets Manager. Also, when you’re managing a large number of parameters across multiple environments, it really helps to have a clear, well-defined naming convention in place to keep everything organized and easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since, Macie covers s3, cloudwatch covers VPC logs, Cloudtrail with api calls within services. There were some limitations within them. Since our infrastructure may be secure, but in case of defense in depth, we should always consider regular patching of EC2, identify unwanted softwares. Who and when it happened. All these should be logged for correlating purpose. System Manager with help of agents and aggregators shows the posture of an OS or an EC2 or running core. The integration is also very simple with other services to make sure security and compliance is in stand. Coming to patch manager, using playbooks were pretty easy and risk free as it could be triggered based on rules. Thanks for such a service. Implementation and support are always available from docs, whitepapers, community etc, . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Downside is, Overall , in view of compliance sometimes PII uploaded to s3 can be identified with Macie. But when its an image or pdf containing photo copies of such personal sensitive information its hard to identify. It might be stored on the ec2 or s3. But figuring out it is complex. We do have OCR techniques in some services, which can trigger ec2 playbooks. Yes , it can be achievable with right problem solving technique and using the required services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful about AWS system manager is it works with hybrid cloud systems including on-prem systems. Prevent drift by resolving to configure management, OS patches, and inventory. Highly Secure and compliant with industry standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of AWS system manager is it doesn't support third-party extensions. The Parameter store feature needs improvements so that it becomes easy to execute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like about AWS Systems Manager is they provide dashboard category-wise such as operations management, application management, node management, shared resources, automation management. It is a centralized access control which also helps us in auditing control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS provides us amazing cloud features which no other competitor provides. Hence I do not dislike anything about it. I have not used many features of Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

being new to AWS i wanted somewhere I could manage the patch management and remote onto my instances with session manager all in one place, using this I can able to manage all the instances I have in one area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there are loads of submenus in system manager , so can be a little over whelming when you first go through to this menu, and to start a session it can be annoying with the amount of click you have to do it get on the server you want to remote on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complete removal of SSH access to production servers has reduced my maintenance time. Coupled with the RunCommand to send common commands to multiple servers I reduced hours of work to minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting started and using Patch Baselines is more convoluted than I think it should be -- especially for the most common operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just started to look into this service and tried different things and I have to say this works so well managing your AWS resources. It saves you time to manage EC2 instances, configurations etc. One thing I did is to use the System Manager to store configuration file and deploy the configuration to my EC2 instances. The configuration is to set up the CloudWatch Agent and push the metrics to CloudWatch. It worked really well. You do not have to go into each instance and deploy the configuration file. With one click you set up all instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found anything I do not like. Enjoying it so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Systems Manager provides an easy way to install software, gather data and manage fleets of instances without having to remote into each one. Systems Manager also provides remote shell access without having to use a bastion host. Parameter Store also makes a great and cheaper alternative to Secrets Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Noting really to dislike. Services work as advertised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Systems Manager can streamline and improve operations and compliance for System Software Manager(SSM) users moving forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we expect the new AWS Systems Manager to improve the security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.