Setting up System Manager to remediate non-compliance with AWS Config rules

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up AWS System Manager (SSM) so that we can use this setting to automate non-compliance remediation in the next chapter. AWS SSM automation simplifies maintenance and deployment tasks for AWS services such as S3. For a data engineer, one of the common challenges is ensuring that all resources adhere to organizational policies and regulatory requirements. Due to the length of the recipe, it will be broken into two parts: setting up SSM in this recipe and using this setup in the Using AWS config to automate non-compliance S3 server access logging policy recipe later.

AWS SSM is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help automate and streamline various management tasks across your AWS infrastructure. It provides a secure, remote management solution for configuring your managed instances, ensuring that they remain compliant with your organization’s standards...