Manually installing and uninstalling SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Windows Server
AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is preinstalled, by default, on the following Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server provided by Amazon:
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Windows Server 2008-2012 R2 AMIs published in November 2016 or later
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Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 (excluding Nano versions)
Install SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Windows Server
If necessary, you can manually download and install the latest version of SSM Agent on your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance for Windows Server by using the following procedure. The commands provided in this procedure can also be passed to Amazon EC2 instances as scripts through user data.
SSM Agent requires Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later to run certain AWS Systems Manager
documents (SSM documents) on Windows Server instances (for example, the legacy
AWS-ApplyPatchBaseline
document). Verify that your Windows Server
instances are running Windows Management Framework 3.0 or later. This framework
includes Windows PowerShell. For more information, see Windows Management Framework 3.0
Note
This procedure applies to installing or reinstalling SSM Agent on an EC2 instance for Windows Server. If you need to install the agent on an on-premises server or a virtual machine (VM) so it can be used with Systems Manager, see How to install the SSM Agent on hybrid Windows nodes.
To manually install the latest version of SSM Agent on EC2 instances for Windows Server
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Connect to your instance by using Remote Desktop or Windows PowerShell. For more information, see Connect to your instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
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Download the latest version of SSM Agent to your instance. You can download using either PowerShell commands or a direct download link.
Note
The URLs in this step let you download SSM Agent from any AWS Region. If you want to download the agent from a specific Region, use a Region-specific URL instead:
https://amazon-ssm-
region
.s3.region
.amazonaws.com/latest/windows_amd64/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exeregion
represents the identifier for an AWS Region supported by AWS Systems Manager, such asus-east-2
for the US East (Ohio) Region. For a list of supportedregion
values, see the Region column in Systems Manager service endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.- PowerShell
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Run the following three PowerShell commands in order. These commands allow you to download SSM Agent without adjusting Internet Explorer (IE) Enhanced Security settings, and then install the agent and remove the installation file.
Start-Process ` -FilePath $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\SSMAgent_latest.exe ` -ArgumentList "/S"
rm -Force $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\SSMAgent_latest.exe
- Direct download
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Download the latest version of SSM Agent to your instance by using the following link. If you want, update this URL with an AWS Region-specific URL.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/windows_amd64/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
Run the downloaded
AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe
file to install SSM Agent.
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Start or restart SSM Agent by sending the following command in PowerShell:
Restart-Service AmazonSSMAgent
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To uninstall the SSM Agent from a Windows Server instance, open Control Panel, Programs. Choose the Uninstall a program option. Open the context (right-click) menu for Amazon SSM Agent and choose Uninstall.