How to remotely manage an Amazon EC2 instance using Systems Manager Run Command by Raj Gupta

Step 1:-

Attach an IAM role with the AmazonEC2RoleforSSM managed policy to an Amazon EC2 instance.

Step 2 :-

If you are using IAM user account then Grant Your User Account Access to Systems Manager by attaching Policy AmazonSSMFullAccess to user account.

Step 3:-

Install the SSM Agent

The agent is installed by default on Windows AMIs starting in November 2016 and later, Amazon Linux AMIs starting with 2017.09, and all Amazon Linux 2 AMIs

Step 4:-

To execute a command using Run Command from the console

 EC2 console --->> Run Command Tab

For Command document, choose AWS-RunPowerShellScript for Windows instances, and AWSRunShellScript for Linux instances.

Name : AWS-RunShellScript

For Target instances, choose the instance you created

For Commands, type Get-Service for Windows, or ps aux for Linux

Choose Run to execute the command. Run Command displays a status screen. Choose View result