How Patch Manager operations work - AWS Systems Manager

How Patch Manager operations work

This section provides technical details that explain how Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, determines which patches to install and how it installs them on each supported operating system. For Linux operating systems, it also provides information about specifying a source repository, in a custom patch baseline, for patches other than the default configured on a managed node. This section also provides details about how patch baseline rules work on different distributions of the Linux operating system.

Note

The information in the following topics applies no matter which method or type of configuration you are using for your patching operations:

  • A patch policy configured in Quick Setup

  • A Host Management option configured in Quick Setup

  • A maintenance window to run a patch Scan or Install task

  • An on-demand Patch now operation

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