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How to install AWS System Manager (SSM) Agent on windows using PowerShell?

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Welcome to itscloudhub!! In the previous post, we were looked how to install AWS SSM Agent on Linux Distribution. In this blog post, we will discuss how to install AWS SSM Agent on Windows machine. https://www.itscloudhub.com/2022/03/how-to-install-aws-system-manager-ssm.html AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is preinstalled, by default, on the following Amazon Machine Images (AMIs): 1. Windows Server 2008-2012 R2 AMIs published in November 2016 or later 2. Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 If your managed instance is a Windows Server 2008-2012 R2 instance created before November 2016, then EC2Config processes Systems Manager requests on your instance. We recommend that you upgrade your existing instances to use the latest version of EC2Config . By using the latest EC2Config installer, you install SSM Agent side-by-side with EC2Config. This side-by-side version of SSM Agent is compatible with your instances created from earlier Windows Server AMIs and allows you to use SSM fe...

How to install AWS System Manager (SSM) Agent on Linux Distributions?

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Welcome to itscloudhub!! In this blog post, we will discuss how to install SSM agent on Linux distributions. What is AWS SSM agent? AWS System Manager Agent is a software that can be installed and configured on an Amazon EC2 instance, On-premises server or a Virtual Machine. This agents can help System Manager to update, configure and manage these resources.  This agent processes request from System Manager and execute them as specified in the request with their nodes. Also, sends the execution status back to the System Manager by using Amazon Message Delivery Service. Let us going to install SSM agent. Amazon Linux SSM Agent is installed, by default, on Amazon Linux Base Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) dated 2017.09 and later. SSM Agent is also installed, by default, on Amazon Linux 2 AMIs and Amazon Linux 2 ECS-Optimized Base AMIs. You must manually install SSM Agent on other versions of Linux. Managed nodes created from an Amazon Linux AMI that use a proxy must run a current versio...