Posted On: Apr 1, 2022

You can now define a cutoff behavior for your maintenance tasks using Amazon Systems Manager Maintenance Windows, which allows you to stop or continue ongoing tasks when the cutoff time is reached. This provides DevOps and IT engineers with more control on the cutoff behavior to ensure disruptive tasks are not run outside the desired period. For instance, while registering an Automation task with a maintenance window, you can now set up the cutoff behavior to cancel ongoing tasks. This would ensure that no new task invocations are started when the cutoff time is reached.

To get started, open the Amazon Systems Manager console and, in the navigation pane, choose Maintenance Windows. Then, enable new task invocation cutoff while you are defining a new maintenance window task.

This feature is available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Customers can use this feature at no additional charge. For more details about Maintenance Windows, visit the Amazon Systems Manager product page and documentation.