# Tutorials
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The following tutorials help you to use Amazon Systems Manager Automation to address common use cases. These tutorials demonstrate how to use your own runbooks, predefined runbooks provided by Automation, and other Systems Manager tools with other Amazon Web Services services.

This section includes the following topics.
+ [Update a Linux AMI](automation-tutorial-update-patch-linux-ami.md)
+ [Update a Windows Server AMI](automation-tutorial-update-patch-windows-ami.md)
+ [Using Amazon Web Services Support self-service runbooks](automation-tutorial-support-runbooks.md)
+ [Reset passwords and SSH keys on EC2 instances](automation-ec2reset.md)