Your environment includes on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances that use various patching tools. Management requires a single consolidated report showing the patch status across both on‑premises servers and EC2 instances. Which actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement?
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Correct answer: Use AWS Systems Manager to manage patching for both the on-premises servers and the EC2 instances. Use Systems Manager’s patch compliance reporting to produce a unified patch status report..
Why this is the answer
The correct answer is to use AWS Systems Manager because it is designed to manage both EC2 instances and on-premises servers (through the Systems Manager Agent), offering a unified platform for operations. Its Patch Manager capability automates the patching process and, critically, provides built-in patch compliance reporting across all managed instances, directly addressing the requirement for a single consolidated report. AWS OpsWorks is primarily an application management service and is not the ideal tool for comprehensive patch management and reporting across diverse environments. While it can manage some aspects of instances, it lacks the dedicated patch compliance reporting features of Systems Manager. Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service, not a patch management or reporting tool. AWS X-Ray is for application performance monitoring and tracing, not patch status reporting.
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