AWS Systems Manager is a service that helps you manage your AWS resources and applications in a centralized and secure way. It allows you to view operational data from multiple AWS services, automate tasks across your AWS resources, and troubleshoot issues quickly and efficiently. What can you do with AWS Systems Manager? AWS Systems Manager provides you with four main categories of features: Application management: You can use Application Manager to group your AWS resources into logical applications and clusters, and monitor their performance and health.

Overview AWS Lambda is one of the most powerful services offered by AWS. I have used it in a few of my personal projects and it never fails to surprise me with the pleathora of features it has. I use boto3, the Python SDK for AWS, to perform start/stop on my EC2 instances during work hours and for a few report generation process where I just upload the CSV file to S3 and it is processed by lambda and delieverd via SNS.