Amazon Simple Systems Manager (SSM) Update: This release updates the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store PutParameter and LabelParameterVersion APIs to return the "Tier" of parameter created/updated and the "parameter version" labeled respectively.

Author: AWS

.changes/next-release/feature-AmazonSimpleSystemsManagerSSM-7546197.json

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "type": "feature",
+    "category": "Amazon Simple Systems Manager (SSM)",
+    "description": "This release updates the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store PutParameter and LabelParameterVersion APIs to return the \"Tier\" of parameter created/updated and the \"parameter version\" labeled respectively."
+}

services/ssm/src/main/resources/codegen-resources/service-2.json

@@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@
         {"shape":"InvalidAssociationVersion"},
         {"shape":"AssociationVersionLimitExceeded"}
       ],
-      "documentation":"<p>Updates an association. You can update the association name and version, the document version, schedule, parameters, and Amazon S3 output.</p> <important> <p>When you update an association, the association immediately runs against the specified targets.</p> </important>"
+      "documentation":"<p>Updates an association. You can update the association name and version, the document version, schedule, parameters, and Amazon S3 output. </p> <p>In order to call this API action, your IAM user account, group, or role must be configured with permission to call the <a>DescribeAssociation</a> API action. If you don't have permission to call DescribeAssociation, then you receive the following error: <code>An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the UpdateAssociation operation: User: &lt;user_arn&gt; is not authorized to perform: ssm:DescribeAssociation on resource: &lt;resource_arn&gt;</code> </p> <important> <p>When you update an association, the association immediately runs against the specified targets.</p> </important>"
     },
     "UpdateAssociationStatus":{
       "name":"UpdateAssociationStatus",
@@ -7386,7 +7386,7 @@
         },
         "IsLatestVersion":{
           "shape":"Boolean",
-          "documentation":"<p>Indicates whether latest version of SSM Agent is running on your instance. Some older versions of Windows Server use the EC2Config service to process SSM requests. For this reason, this field does not indicate whether or not the latest version is installed on Windows managed instances.</p>",
+          "documentation":"<p>Indicates whether the latest version of SSM Agent is running on your Linux Managed Instance. This field does not indicate whether or not the latest version is installed on Windows managed instances, because some older versions of Windows Server use the EC2Config service to process SSM requests.</p>",
           "box":true
         },
         "PlatformType":{
@@ -8509,7 +8509,7 @@
         },
         "ParameterVersion":{
           "shape":"PSParameterVersion",
-          "documentation":"<p>The specific version of the parameter on which you want to attach one or more labels. If no version is specified, the system attaches the label to the latest version.)</p>",
+          "documentation":"<p>The specific version of the parameter on which you want to attach one or more labels. If no version is specified, the system attaches the label to the latest version.</p>",
           "box":true
         },
         "Labels":{
@@ -8524,6 +8524,10 @@
         "InvalidLabels":{
           "shape":"ParameterLabelList",
           "documentation":"<p>The label does not meet the requirements. For information about parameter label requirements, see <a href=\"http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-paramstore-labels.html\">Labeling Parameters</a> in the <i>AWS Systems Manager User Guide</i>.</p>"
+        },
+        "ParameterVersion":{
+          "shape":"PSParameterVersion",
+          "documentation":"<p>The version of the parameter that has been labeled.</p>"
         }
       }
     },
@@ -11294,7 +11298,7 @@
         },
         "Tier":{
           "shape":"ParameterTier",
-          "documentation":"<p>The parameter tier to assign to a parameter.</p> <p>Parameter Store offers a standard tier and an advanced tier for parameters. Standard parameters have a content size limit of 4 KB and can't be configured to use parameter policies. You can create a maximum of 10,000 standard parameters for each Region in an AWS account. Standard parameters are offered at no additional cost. </p> <p>Advanced parameters have a content size limit of 8 KB and can be configured to use parameter policies. You can create a maximum of 100,000 advanced parameters for each Region in an AWS account. Advanced parameters incur a charge. For more information, see <a href=\"http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/parameter-store-advanced-parameters.html\">About Advanced Parameters</a> in the <i>AWS Systems Manager User Guide</i>.</p> <p>You can change a standard parameter to an advanced parameter any time. But you can't revert an advanced parameter to a standard parameter. Reverting an advanced parameter to a standard parameter would result in data loss because the system would truncate the size of the parameter from 8 KB to 4 KB. Reverting would also remove any policies attached to the parameter. Lastly, advanced parameters use a different form of encryption than standard parameters. </p> <p>If you no longer need an advanced parameter, or if you no longer want to incur charges for an advanced parameter, you must delete it and recreate it as a new standard parameter. </p> <p> <b>Using the Default Tier Configuration</b> </p> <p>In <code>PutParameter</code> requests, you can specify the tier to create the parameter in. Whenever you specify a tier in the request, Parameter Store creates or updates the parameter according to that request. However, if you do not specify a tier in a request, Parameter Store assigns the tier based on the current Parameter Store default tier configuration.</p> <p>The default tier when you begin using Parameter Store is the standard-parameter tier. If you use the advanced-parameter tier, you can specify one of the following as the default:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <b>Advanced</b>: With this option, Parameter Store evaluates all requests as advanced parameters. </p> </li> <li> <p> <b>Intelligent-Tiering</b>: With this option, Parameter Store evaluates each request to determine if the parameter is standard or advanced. </p> <p>If the request doesn't include any options that require an advanced parameter, the parameter is created in the standard-parameter tier. If one or more options requiring an advanced parameter are included in the request, Parameter Store create a parameter in the advanced-parameter tier.</p> <p>This approach helps control your parameter-related costs by always creating standard parameters unless an advanced parameter is necessary. </p> </li> </ul> <p>Options that require an advanced parameter include the following:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The content size of the parameter is more than 4 KB.</p> </li> <li> <p>The parameter uses a parameter policy.</p> </li> <li> <p>More than 10,000 parameters already exist in your AWS account in the current Region.</p> </li> </ul> <p>For more information about configuring the default tier option, see <a href=\"http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ps-default-tier.html\">Specifying a Default Parameter Tier</a> in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.</p>"
+          "documentation":"<p>The parameter tier to assign to a parameter.</p> <p>Parameter Store offers a standard tier and an advanced tier for parameters. Standard parameters have a content size limit of 4 KB and can't be configured to use parameter policies. You can create a maximum of 10,000 standard parameters for each Region in an AWS account. Standard parameters are offered at no additional cost. </p> <p>Advanced parameters have a content size limit of 8 KB and can be configured to use parameter policies. You can create a maximum of 100,000 advanced parameters for each Region in an AWS account. Advanced parameters incur a charge. For more information, see <a href=\"http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/parameter-store-advanced-parameters.html\">About Advanced Parameters</a> in the <i>AWS Systems Manager User Guide</i>.</p> <p>You can change a standard parameter to an advanced parameter any time. But you can't revert an advanced parameter to a standard parameter. Reverting an advanced parameter to a standard parameter would result in data loss because the system would truncate the size of the parameter from 8 KB to 4 KB. Reverting would also remove any policies attached to the parameter. Lastly, advanced parameters use a different form of encryption than standard parameters. </p> <p>If you no longer need an advanced parameter, or if you no longer want to incur charges for an advanced parameter, you must delete it and recreate it as a new standard parameter. </p> <p> <b>Using the Default Tier Configuration</b> </p> <p>In <code>PutParameter</code> requests, you can specify the tier to create the parameter in. Whenever you specify a tier in the request, Parameter Store creates or updates the parameter according to that request. However, if you do not specify a tier in a request, Parameter Store assigns the tier based on the current Parameter Store default tier configuration.</p> <p>The default tier when you begin using Parameter Store is the standard-parameter tier. If you use the advanced-parameter tier, you can specify one of the following as the default:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <b>Advanced</b>: With this option, Parameter Store evaluates all requests as advanced parameters. </p> </li> <li> <p> <b>Intelligent-Tiering</b>: With this option, Parameter Store evaluates each request to determine if the parameter is standard or advanced. </p> <p>If the request doesn't include any options that require an advanced parameter, the parameter is created in the standard-parameter tier. If one or more options requiring an advanced parameter are included in the request, Parameter Store create a parameter in the advanced-parameter tier.</p> <p>This approach helps control your parameter-related costs by always creating standard parameters unless an advanced parameter is necessary. </p> </li> </ul> <p>Options that require an advanced parameter include the following:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The content size of the parameter is more than 4 KB.</p> </li> <li> <p>The parameter uses a parameter policy.</p> </li> <li> <p>More than 10,000 parameters already exist in your AWS account in the current Region.</p> </li> </ul> <p>For more information about configuring the default tier option, see <a href=\"http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ps-default-tier.html\">Specifying a Default Parameter Tier</a> in the <i>AWS Systems Manager User Guide</i>.</p>"
         },
         "Policies":{
           "shape":"ParameterPolicies",
@@ -11308,6 +11312,10 @@
         "Version":{
           "shape":"PSParameterVersion",
           "documentation":"<p>The new version number of a parameter. If you edit a parameter value, Parameter Store automatically creates a new version and assigns this new version a unique ID. You can reference a parameter version ID in API actions or in Systems Manager documents (SSM documents). By default, if you don't specify a specific version, the system returns the latest parameter value when a parameter is called.</p>"
+        },
+        "Tier":{
+          "shape":"ParameterTier",
+          "documentation":"<p>The tier assigned to the parameter.</p>"
         }
       }
     },