Running commands on managed nodes
This section includes information about how to send commands from the Amazon Systems Manager console to managed nodes. This section also includes information about how to cancel a command.
For information about how to send commands using Windows PowerShell, see Walkthrough: Use the Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell with Run Command or the examples in the Amazon Systems Manager section of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference. For information about how to send commands using the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), see the Walkthrough: Use the Amazon CLI with Run Command or the examples in the SSM CLI Reference.
Important
When you send a command using Run Command, don't include sensitive information
formatted as plaintext, such as passwords, configuration data, or other secrets. All
Systems Manager API activity in your account is logged in an S3 bucket for Amazon CloudTrail logs.
This means that any user with access to S3 bucket can view the plaintext values
of those secrets. For this reason, we recommend creating and using
SecureString parameters to encrypt sensitive data you use in
your Systems Manager operations.
For more information, see Restricting access to Systems Manager parameters using IAM policies.