AWs system manager is a complex and comprehensive service that is essential in your management of resources in AWS and hybrid systems, its management abilities are categorized into different subsets, i will be highlighting Application Management.
Application Management
This is essential for DevOps team, it offers a comprehensive way to identify issues in your applications and clusters making it effective to solve issues that arise from the operation information generated. It leverages on the logical of AWS resources that one may need to operate as a unit based on your application needs. It supports AWS container services like Elastic Kubernetes service (EKS) and elastic container clusters (ECS).
It is also Leverages in providing essential metadate from resources created from AWS CloudFormation, AWS Launch Wizard and the container services EKS and ECS.
Application manager imports metadata about your resources into resource groups, listing them into unique custom applications.
To leverage Application manager one has to first set up related services, configure permissions, add applications and clusters to application manager
Application manager outlines different step to take when setting up. Some of the services include Resource groups, use of tags, which make managing, monitoring, and automate tasks on many resources at one time in the case when you use resource groups.
CloudFormation stacks category are formed from information automatically imported by Application manager from resources launched through CloudFormation. AWS Launch wizard, elastic Kubernetes service and elastic container service can be optionally used to setup tasks using application service.
Application manager can also be leverages in setting up tasks helping you view operations information about your AWS resources.
It allows cost explorer by enabling it, one can view cost information, cost history, and cost optimization for your application's resources in the Application Manager console. CloudWatch logs and alarms through configuring and setting up with application manager making it possible to collect and access all your performance and operational data in the form of logs and metrics from a single platform.
AWS Config which is an evaluation tool for your AWS resources allows Application manager to show configuration reports from rules in AWS Config. Opcenter can be set up and configured
it leverages on the configuration of Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge to automatically send OpsItems to OpsCenter based on
alarms and events. Each service has its own configuration steps.
Application management also recommends Verifying runbook permissions in state manager, one can optionally creating State Manager associations from system manager which is offered at not additional cost.
For a more comprehensive deep dive on the options highlighted visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/application-manager-getting-started-related-services.html
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