AWS Systems Manager Reviews

Name: AWS Systems Manager
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

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AWS Systems Manager is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems. These capabilities help you define and track system configurations, prevent drift, and maintain software compliance of your EC2 and on-premises configurations. By providing a management approach that is designed for the scale and agility of the cloud but extends into your on-premises data center, Systems Manager makes it easier for you to seamlessly bridge your existing infrastructure with AWS.

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AWS Systems Manager is the #7 ranked solution in top Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Systems Manager an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. AWS Systems Manager is most commonly compared to Microsoft Intune: AWS Systems Manager vs Microsoft Intune. AWS Systems Manager is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Joyee Sen

SAP Service Delivery Manager at SoftwareONE

May 5, 2023

I manage the company's large SAP workloads that run on AWS. We use it for things like automation. We are service providers. I'm an SAP Service Delivery Manager We are currently exploring patching automation. Overall, there are a variety of automation options that can be achieved using Systems…

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Virimai Mare

L3 Engineer at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Oct 2, 2023

You can use it for Duo Inventory and to do page management. You can use it to do automation We are testing with a couple of machines that are using SSM for patching. When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the…

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Jatin Sehrawat

Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 9, 2024

My company just manages and deploys resources on AWS for our clients. All the resources on AWS are as per our company's client requirements With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually. If there are a lot of servers,…

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AWS Systems Manager market share

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS Systems Manager in the Configuration Management category stands at 8.7%, marking a decrease of 8.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the cloud."

Room for Improvement

"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."

Pricing

"As we were doing a government project so the government got the project at a very nominal cost."

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Government

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Learn more about AWS Systems Manager

Systems Manager is easy to use. Simply access Systems Manager from the EC2 Management Console, select the instances you want to manage, and define the management tasks you want to perform. Systems Manager is available now at no cost to manage both your EC2 and on-premises resources.

AWS Systems Manager was previously known as Amazon Elastic Container Registry.