Question 290
A production readiness review reports the following problem, the decisive constraint is: A patch rollout must happen only during designated low-traffic hours with staged approval. What should the architect implement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Configure Systems Manager Maintenance Windows with targeted Patch Manager tasks. Maintenance Windows constrain managed operations to approved schedules.
Incorrect Answers
For the separate situation Engineers require instance access for troubleshooting but production security groups prohibit SSH, Enable Systems Manager Session Manager with required IAM and instance connectivity could be useful. Session Manager provides managed shell access without inbound administrative ports.
Although Centralize relevant incidents in Systems Manager OpsCenter for operational triage can be valid when An operations group needs to consolidate actionable investigation items from multiple managed EC2 fleets, it targets a different technical condition. OpsCenter collects operational issues as OpsItems and supports coordinated investigation.
Package the approved agent with Systems Manager Distributor and deploy it to the managed fleet would address a different requirement: Operations engineers repeatedly install the same internal monitoring agent on hundreds of managed EC2 servers. Distributor distributes versioned software packages without individual manual host installs.