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Amruta Pardeshi
Amruta Pardeshi

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Install SSM-Agent on AWS EC2 Instance

Create an AWS EC2 Instance
Create IAM Role with AmazonEc2RoleforSSM permission
Attach this IAM Role to your EC2 Instance
Now SSH into the EC2
Check status if SSM-Agent is installed using this command,

$ sudo systemctl status amazon-ssm-agent

$ yum info amazon-ssm-agent

Command to install SSM-Agent
$ sudo yum install -y https://s3.region.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-region/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm

Add preferred region in command and run to install ssm agent
$ sudo yum install -y https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-us-east-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm

Now you can open the instance on console and login using session manager

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