# Amazon Systems Manager Documentation

Use Amazon Systems Manager to organize, monitor, and automate management tasks on your Amazon resources.

## Amazon Systems Manager

Amazon Systems Manager helps you centrally view, manage, and operate nodes at scale in Amazon, on-premises, and multicloud environments. An integrated console experience consolidates tools to help you complete common node tasks across Amazon Web Services accounts and Regions.

- [User Guide](/en_us/systems-manager/latest/userguide/): Provides detailed descriptions of Amazon Systems Manager concepts and includes instructions for using both the console and the command line interface. Learn how to configure, manage, and automate tasks on groups of Amazon instances and resources.
- [Automation Runbook Reference](/en_us/systems-manager-automation-runbooks/latest/userguide/): Describes the predefined runbooks for Automation, a capability of Amazon Systems Manager, in detail.
- [API Reference](/en_us/systems-manager/latest/APIReference/): Describes the API operations for Amazon Systems Manager in detail. In addition, the API Reference provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web service protocols.

## Amazon AppConfig

Amazon AppConfig lets you quickly and safely deploy application configurations. Amazon AppConfig supports controlled deployments to applications of any size and includes built-in validation checks and monitoring.

- [User Guide](/en_us/appconfig/latest/userguide/what-is-appconfig.html): Provides detailed descriptions of Amazon AppConfig concepts and includes instructions for using both the console and the command line interface.
- [API Reference](/en_us/appconfig/2019-10-09/APIReference/): Describes the API operations for Amazon AppConfig in detail. In addition, the API Reference provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web service protocols.

## GUI Connect

Amazon Systems Manager GUI Connect lets you connect to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows Server instances using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Systems Manager GUI Connect, which is powered by Amazon DCV, provides you with secure connectivity to your Windows Server instances directly from the Systems Manager console. In the console, GUI Connect is also referred to as Fleet Manager Remote Desktop.

- [User Guide](/en_us/systems-manager/latest/userguide/fleet-rdp.html): Provides setup and configuration instructions and instructions for using the console.

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