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Edge computing infrastructure management
A typical manufacturing facility has on-premises computing infrastructure to manage, such
as industrial data centers, industrial PCs, and gateways. Managing this infrastructure can be
a challenge due to disparate hardware/software, lack of centralized management interface, and
no easy way to implement best practices. The responsibility of this infrastructure is shared
between OT and IT domains. Customers can leverage the experience of AWS by following the best
practices of IT infrastructure management, and by leveraging on-premises management and
monitoring services such as AWS Systems Manager
For example, CloudWatch agents can be used to monitor health/usage metrics and logs from edge servers running manufacturing applications. Customers can configure alerts to get notified in case of failures or exceptions. AWS Systems Manager can be used for centralized device management. Customers can collect software inventories, operation system versions, and installed patches. They can automate tasks such as software installation and patch management. This also helps you to maintain your security and compliance requirements, by scanning the instances against specified patch, configuration, and custom policies.
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