Municipal policy requires critical OS and package patches on EC2 fleets within 30 days. Which approach best operationalizes that standard for a new solution?
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Short Explanation
Systems Manager Patch Manager is the city work-order system for EC2—scheduled windows, known baselines, receipts that criticals landed inside 30 days. Hope-and-pray manual patching is not a standard.
Full Explanation
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager provides patch baselines, maintenance windows, and compliance visibility suited to organizational patch SLAs such as a 30-day critical standard. Ad-hoc untracked patching, never patching, or annual-only AMI rebuilds without interim critical remediation fail compliance-oriented patch strategy.