

# Amazon Systems Manager in Amazon Web Services China
<a name="systems-manager"></a>

Amazon Systems Manager (formerly Amazon EC2 Systems Manager) is a unified interface that allows you to easily centralize operational data and automate tasks across your Amazon resources. Systems Manager shortens the time to detect and resolve operational problems in your infrastructure. Systems Manager gives you a complete view of your infrastructure performance and configuration, simplifies resource and application management, and makes it easy to operate and manage your infrastructure at scale.

## Region availability
<a name="feature-regions"></a>

Amazon Systems Manager is available in the following Regions in China:
+  China (Beijing) Region
+  China (Ningxia) Region

## How Amazon Systems Manager differs
<a name="feature-diff"></a>

The following differences apply to Amazon Systems Manager:

General  
Using Systems Manager to configure, access, and manage Amazon IoT Greengrass Version 2 devices is not available.

Application Manager  
Creating Amazon CloudFormation templates and stacks by using Application Manager is not available.

Automation  
The Automation `aws:copyImage` action is not available.  
Concurrently running automations in multiple Amazon Web Services Regions and accounts is not available.  
The following Automation actions for invoking APIs from other Amazon services are not available:  
+  `aws:executeAwsApi` 
+  `aws:waitForAwsResourceProperty` 
+  `aws:assertAwsResourceProperty` 

Change Manager  
The Change Manager capability is not available.

Explorer  
Creating resource data syncs is not available.

Fleet Manager  
To connect to a Windows Server managed instance using [Fleet Manager’s Remote Desktop functionality](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/fleet-manager-remote-desktop-connections.html), users must have been granted the correct IAM permissions for the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. See [IAM permission policies for Fleet Manager Remote Desktop connections](#fleet-manager-rdp-policies) later in this page for policy examples.

 Incident Manager   
The Incident Manager capability is not available.

OpsCenter  
The markdown support feature in the OpsItem description field in the console is not available.

Patch Manager  
The **Patch now** feature in Patch Manager is not available.  
Patch policies (a Quick Setup configuration) are not available.

 Quick Setup   
The Quick Setup capability is not available.

 Session Manager   
To download the [Session Manager plugin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html) for Systems Manager, for use on your local machine, use the following URls:  
+ Windows Server: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/windows/SessionManagerPluginSetup.exe](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/windows/SessionManagerPluginSetup.exe) 
+ macOS: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/mac/sessionmanager-bundle.zip](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/mac/sessionmanager-bundle.zip) 
+ Linux 32-bit: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/linux_32bit/session-manager-plugin.rpm](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/linux_32bit/session-manager-plugin.rpm) 
+ Linux 64-bit: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/linux_64bit/session-manager-plugin.rpm](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/linux_64bit/session-manager-plugin.rpm) 
+ Ubuntu Server 32-bit: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/ubuntu_32bit/session-manager-plugin.deb](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/ubuntu_32bit/session-manager-plugin.deb) 
+ Ubuntu Server 64-bit: [https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/ubuntu\_64bit/session-manager-plugin.deb](https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/ubuntu_32bit/session-manager-plugin.deb) 

 SSM Agent  
Installation files for [SSM Agent](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ssm-agent.html) are available for both the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions, for all supported operating systems. For information, see the following section, [SSM Agent installation files in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions](#ssm-agent-installation).

State Manager  
The following features aren’t supported.  
+ Schedule Offset
+  `TagOnCreate` when creating a new State Manager association

### SSM Agent installation files in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions
<a name="ssm-agent-installation"></a>

To install [SSM Agent](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ssm-agent.html) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, choose the appropriate installation file URL for your Amazon Web Services Region and operating system.

#### Amazon Linux
<a name="_amazon_linux"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Amazon Linux Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on Amazon Linux instances.

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### Amazon Linux 2
<a name="_amazon_linux_2"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Amazon Linux 2 Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see [Manually installing SSM Agent on Amazon Linux 2 instances](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/agent-install-al2.html).

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### CentOS
<a name="_centos"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on CentOS Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see [Manually installing SSM Agent on CentOS instances](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/agent-install-centos.html) 

##### CentOS 8
<a name="centos-8"></a>

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

##### CentOS 7
<a name="centos-7"></a>

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

##### CentOS 6
<a name="centos-6"></a>

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### CentOS Stream 8
<a name="_centos_stream_8"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on CentOS Stream Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on CentOS Stream instances

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### Debian Server
<a name="_debian_server"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Debian Server Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see [Manually installing SSM Agent on Debian Server instances](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/agent-install-deb.html) 

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/debian_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/debian_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```

#### Oracle Linux
<a name="_oracle_linux"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Oracle Linux Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on Oracle Linux instances

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
<a name="_red_hat_enterprise_linux_rhel"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on RHEL Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on RHEL instances

##### RHEL 8
<a name="rhel-8"></a>

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

##### RHEL 7
<a name="rhel-7"></a>

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

##### RHEL 6
<a name="rhel-6"></a>

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/3.0.1390.0/linux_386/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### Rocky Linux
<a name="_rocky_linux"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Rocky Linux Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on Rocky Linux instances

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES)
<a name="_suse_enterprise_linux_server_sles"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on SLES Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see [Manually installing SSM Agent on SLES instances](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/agent-install-sles.html) 

 **ARM64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_arm64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
  ```

#### Ubuntu Server
<a name="_ubuntu_server"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Ubuntu Server Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on Ubuntu Server instances.

##### Ubuntu Server 20.10 STR & 20.04, 18.04, and 16.04 LTS 64-bit (Snap)
<a name="ubuntu-snap"></a>

Installation on these versions of Ubuntu Server uses the Snap format instead of installation commands with URLs for installation files. For instructions, see [Install SSM Agent on Ubuntu Server 20.10 STR & 20.04, 18.04, and 16.04 LTS 64-bit (Snap)](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/agent-install-ubuntu-64-snap.html).

##### Ubuntu Server 16.04 and 14.04 64-bit (deb)
<a name="64-bit-deb"></a>

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```

##### Ubuntu Server 16.04 and 14.04 32-bit
<a name="32-bit-deb"></a>

 **x86**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/debian_386/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/debian_386/amazon-ssm-agent.deb
  ```

#### Windows Server
<a name="_windows_server"></a>

Use the following files when installing SSM Agent on Windows Server Amazon EC2 instances. For full instructions, see Manually installing SSM Agent on Windows Server instances

 **x86\_64**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/windows_amd64/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/windows_amd64/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
  ```

 **x86**   
+  China (Beijing) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-north-1/latest/windows_386/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
  ```
+  China (Ningxia) Region

  ```
  https://s3.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn/amazon-ssm-cn-northwest-1/latest/windows_386/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
  ```

### IAM permission policies for Fleet Manager Remote Desktop connections
<a name="fleet-manager-rdp-policies"></a>

The following are example IAM policies that you can attach to a user or role to allow different types of interaction with Remote Desktop in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. Replace each example resource placeholder with your own information.

#### Standard policy for connecting to EC2 instances
<a name="_standard_policy_for_connecting_to_ec2_instances"></a>

```
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "EC2",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:GetPasswordData"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSM",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:DescribeInstanceProperties",
                "ssm:GetCommandInvocation",
                "ssm:GetInventorySchema"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "TerminateSession",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:TerminateSession"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "ssm:resourceTag/aws:ssmmessages:session-id": [
                        "${aws:userid}"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSMStartSession",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:StartSession"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws-cn:ec2:*:111122223333:instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:111122223333:managed-instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*::document/AWS-StartPortForwardingSession"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:CalledVia": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuiConnect",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm-guiconnect:CancelConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:GetConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:StartConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:ListConnections"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
```

#### Policy for connecting to EC2 instances with specific tags
<a name="_policy_for_connecting_to_ec2_instances_with_specific_tags"></a>

**Note**  
In the following IAM policy, the `SSMStartSession` section requires an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the `ssm:StartSession` action. As shown, the ARN you specify does *not* require an Amazon Web Services account ID. If you specify an account ID, Fleet Manager returns an `AccessDeniedException`. The `AccessTaggedInstances` section, which is located lower in the example policy, also requires ARNs for `ssm:StartSession`. For those ARNs, you do specify Amazon Web Services account IDs.

```
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "EC2",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:GetPasswordData"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSM",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:DescribeInstanceProperties",
                "ssm:GetCommandInvocation",
                "ssm:GetInventorySchema"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSMStartSession",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:StartSession"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*::document/AWS-StartPortForwardingSession"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:CalledVia": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AccessTaggedInstances",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:StartSession"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws-cn:ec2:*:111122223333:instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:111122223333:managed-instance/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "ssm:resourceTag/tag key": [
                        "tag value"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuiConnect",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm-guiconnect:CancelConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:GetConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:StartConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:ListConnections"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
```

#### Policy for Amazon IAM Identity Center users to connect to EC2 instances
<a name="policy_for_amazon_shared_sso_users_to_connect_to_ec2_instances"></a>

```
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "SSO",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sso:ListDirectoryAssociations*",
                "identitystore:DescribeUser"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "EC2",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:GetPasswordData"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSM",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation",
                "ssm:DescribeInstanceProperties",
                "ssm:GetCommandInvocation",
                "ssm:GetInventorySchema"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "TerminateSession",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:TerminateSession"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "ssm:resourceTag/aws:ssmmessages:session-id": [
                        "${aws:userName}"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSMStartSession",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:StartSession"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws-cn:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-StartPortForwardingSession"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:CalledVia": "ssm-guiconnect.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SSMSendCommand",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:SendCommand"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws-cn:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
                "arn:aws-cn:ssm:*:*:document/AWSSSO-CreateSSOUser"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuiConnect",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm-guiconnect:CancelConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:GetConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:StartConnection",
                "ssm-guiconnect:ListConnections"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
```

## Documentation
<a name="feature-guides"></a>
+  [Amazon Systems Manager User Guide](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/userguide/) 
+  [Amazon Systems Manager API Reference](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html) 