With the number of growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, developers, DevOps leads, and system administrators should be focusing on operational integration. This whitepaper provides an overview of several capabilities of AWS Systems Manager and explains how you can effectively use this service to meet your operational needs. The paper also helps you organize and manage your AWS services or your hybrid environments (on-premise servers or virtual machines) from one central place. We will cover the broad categorization of various Systems Manager offerings, and dive into details on each of the individual components within these categories.