SSM agent is not updated in windows 2012 R2 servers

Question

SSM Agent is not updated while running the "AWS-UpdateSSMAgent". The execution error was showing as:

failed to download file reliably, https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-ca-central-1/amazon-ssm-agent-updater/3.2.582.0/amazon-ssm-agent-updater-windows-amd64.zip, Get "https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-ca-central-1/amazon-ssm-agent-updater/3.2.582.0/amazon-ssm-agent-updater-windows-amd64.zip": dial tcp 52.95.145.249:443: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

kentrad · Answer

Take a look at this to see how to make sure the agent has access to buckets in S3: [SSM Agent communications with AWS managed S3 buckets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ssm-agent-minimum-s3-permissions.html).

SSM agent is not updated in windows 2012 R2 servers

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