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Systems Manager Parameter Store

Systems Manager Parameter Store - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Systems Manager Parameter Store

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AWS Systems Manager is a service that's not really covered much in the Solutions Architect Associate exam, you'll find it a lot in the SysOps Administrator Associate. Now, Systems Manager is used for managing resources such as Amazon EC2. And there's quite a few different components to Systems Manager. Now the one which I want to discuss for this lesson is systems manager parameter store, also known as SSM parameter store. This service is used for storing secrets and configuration information. So it's essentially a hierarchical storage solution that allows you to store this information securely. It's highly scalable, available and durable. And it's used for storing things such as passwords, database connection strings, license codes. And those are stored as parameter values, you can store values as plain text, so unencrypted information, or a cipher text. So you can encrypt that information in SSM parameter store as well, you can reference values by using the unique name that you…

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