A company's DevOps engineer uses AWS Systems Manager to perform maintenance tasks during maintenance windows. The company has a few Amazon EC2…

AWS Health provides real-time events and information related to your AWS infrastructure. It can be

integrated with Amazon EventBridge to act upon the health events automatically. If the maintenance

notification from AWS Health indicates that an EC2 instance requires a restart, you can set up an

EventBridge rule to respond to such events. In this case, the target of this rule would be a Lambda

function that would trigger a Systems Manager automation to restart the EC2 instance during a

maintenance window. Remember, AWS Health is the source of the events (not EC2 or Systems

Manager), and AWS Lambda can be used to execute complex remediation tasks, such as scheduling

maintenance tasks via Systems Manager.

The following are the steps involved in configuring the EventBridge rule to meet these requirements:

Configure an event source of AWS Health, a service of EC2, and an event type that indicates instance

maintenance.

Target a newly created AWS Lambda function that registers an automation task to restart the EC2

instance during a maintenance window.

The AWS Lambda function will be triggered by the event from AWS Health. The function will then

register an automation task to restart the EC2 instance during the next maintenance window.