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Hybrid Activation – Manage Non-EC2 machines from AWS System Manager

In this article, we will demonstrate how we can manage Non-EC2 on-premise machines from the AWS System Manager using Hybrid Activation. For this demonstration, our on-premises machine will be a Linux VM running on Oracle VirtualBox. The flavour of Linux that we will use is CentOS 7. But you may use any other Linux flavour. …

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Sending SNS Alert and Terminating EC2 instance accessed using SSH

Let us assume that your company has a policy that mandates immediate notification and termination of any EC2 instance accessed via SSH. How do you implement this? In this article, we will explore one solution that makes use of (1) CloudWatch Log Subscription, (2) Lambda and (3) SNS. I believe this option offers more flexibility …

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