Once you have completed your patch installations on your instances, compliance data is available immediately to you. AWS Systems Manager provides three different methods of viewing your patch compliance data:
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/Explorer.html)
- AWS Systems Manager Compliance configuration (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-compliance.html)
- AWS Systems Manager Managed Instances (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/managed_instances.html
Each of these capabilities will provide you with a method of obtaining and viewing your EC2 patch compliance.
Now we have looked at patch baselines, patch groups, automating the patching schedule, and the different capabilities of monitoring your patch compliance, I now want to quickly walk you through setting up your patch configuration:
- From the Patch Manager dashboard...