In this blog, we will show you the steps to Installing Application on Windows EC2 Instance using AWS SSM.
ENVIRONMENT OVERVIEW
- We created a windows 2012 R2 EC2 instance for this SSM demo.
CREATING IAM ROLE FOR AWS SSM
- Go to the services page and search for the IAM service.
- Click on Roles option and create a new role.
- Select the EC2 Service and click Next.
- Search for AmazonEC2RoleforSSM and select it. Then click Next.
- In the review page, provide the role name and description and click on create the role.
- The role created successfully.
ASSIGNING THE ROLES TO EC2 INSTANCES
- Go to the services page and access the EC2 service.
- Right-click on EC2 instance and go to instance settings and click on Attach/Replace IAM role.
- Select the newly created role from the drop-down list and click the Apply button.
INSTALLING APPLICATION
- Go to AWS services and search for systems manager.
Note: By default, it will take upto 5 minutes to display your machine in Systems Manager.
- Click on Managed Instances under Instances & Nodes. You will able to see your EC2 machine on the list.
- To install third-party applications, click on the Run command.
- Under the command document, search for AWS-InstallApplication and select it.
- Make sure that you have selected the Install option under the command parameters section.
- We need to specify the Source MSI file path under the source section. For demo purposes, we uploaded rdman.msi in the S3 bucket.
- We provide the S3 bucket object URL in the source field.
- Select the instance from the Target section.
- Review all the selected options and click on the Run button.
- It will take a few seconds to complete this operation.
VERIFY APPLICATION ON WINDOWS EC2 INSTANCE USING AWS SSM
- Login into the EC2 instance and open the installed program list. You will able to see the installed application on the list.
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