Customize patching in Accelerate
Patching ensures that your software is up-to-date and meets your compliance policies.
When to patch: Patching occurs during a maintenance window. You can schedule maintenance windows so that patches are only applied during preset times.
What to patch: You have to associate the Amazon EC2 instances you want to patch with a maintenance window. To associate the instances with a maintenance window, the Amazon EC2 instances must be tagged, and the maintenance window should have those tags as a target.
Which patches to install: Using patch baselines, you set rules to auto-approve certain types of patches, such as operating system or high-severity patches. You can also specify exceptions to your rules, for example, lists of patches that are always approved or rejected.
For general patching recommendations, see Patching recommendations.
To create custom maintenance windows, see Create a patch maintenance window in AMS.
To create custom patch baselines, see Custom patch baseline with AMS Accelerate.
To route patch alerts to the resource owner, see Understand patch notifications and patch failures in AMS Accelerate.
