Integration with other products and services - AWS Systems Manager

• AWS Systems Manager Change Manager is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see AWS Systems Manager Change Manager availability change.

 

• The AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation.

Integration with other products and services

AWS Systems Manager has built-in integration for the products and services shown in the following table.

Ansible

Ansible is an IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy.

Systems Manager provides the Systems Manager document (SSM document) AWS-ApplyAnsiblePlaybooks which allows you to create State Manager associations that run Ansible playbooks.

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Creating associations that run Ansible playbooks

Chef

Chef is an IT automation tool that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy.

Systems Manager provides the AWS-ApplyChefRecipes SSM document, which allows you to create associations in State Manager, a tool in AWS Systems Manager, that run Chef recipes.

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Creating associations that run Chef recipes

Systems Manager also integrates with Chef InSpec profiles, allowing you to run compliance scans and view compliant and noncompliant nodes.

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Using Chef InSpec profiles with Systems Manager Compliance

GitHub

GitHub provides hosting for software development version control and collaboration.

Systems Manager provides the SSM document AWS-RunDocument, which allows you to run other SSM documents stored in GitHub, and the SSM document AWS-RunRemoteScript , which allows you to run scripts stored in GitHub.

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Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source automation server that allows developers to reliably build, test, and deploy their software.

Automation, a tool in Systems Manager, can be used as a post-build step to pre-install application releases into Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

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Updating AMIs using Automation and Jenkins

ServiceNow

ServiceNow is an enterprise service management system that allows you to manage your IT services and operations.

Automation, Change Manager, Incident Manager, and OpsCenter, all tools in Systems Manager, integrate with ServiceNow by using the AWS Service Management Connector. With this integration, you can view, create, update, add correspondence, and resolve AWS Support cases from ServiceNow.

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Integrating with ServiceNow

Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software tool that provides a command line interface (CLI) workflow to manage various cloud services. For Systems Manager, you can use Terraform to manage or provision the following:

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