What should a SysOps Administrator do to ensure a company has visibility into maintenance events performed by AWS?
Run a script that queries AWS Systems Manager for upcoming maintenance events, and then push these events to an Amazon SNS topic to which the Operations team is subscribed.
Query the AWS Health API for upcoming maintenance events and integrate the results with the company’s existing operations dashboard.
Integrate the AWS Service Health Dashboard’s RSS feed into the company’s existing operations dashboard.
Use Amazon Inspector to send notifications of upcoming maintenance events to the Operations team distribution list.
Explanations:
While querying AWS Systems Manager for upcoming maintenance events and pushing them to an SNS topic could provide visibility, AWS Systems Manager is not the ideal service for fetching maintenance events. The AWS Health API is the recommended service for this purpose.
The AWS Health API provides detailed information about ongoing or upcoming maintenance events. Integrating it with the operations dashboard will allow real-time monitoring of events affecting AWS resources, making this the most appropriate approach.
The AWS Service Health Dashboard provides information about current and past status of AWS services, but it does not offer the same level of detail or notification capability for upcoming maintenance events. It is not the best option for proactive event visibility.
Amazon Inspector is a security assessment service, not designed for tracking AWS maintenance events. It cannot send notifications for upcoming maintenance events, making it unsuitable for this use case.
I compute that the answer is:
Query the AWS Health API for upcoming maintenance events and integrate the results with the company’s existing operations dashboard.