aws ssm module in Ansible

Question

What exactly does the aws_ssm module do? Can you also please give an example? Thank you

Answer 1

According to the official docs, this module can be used for the following:

• Get the value for an Amazon Simple Systems Manager parameter or a hierarchy of parameters. 
• If looking up an explicitly listed parameter by name which does not exist then the lookup will return a None value which will be interpreted by Jinja2 as an empty string. You can use the `default` filter to give a default value in this case but must set the second parameter to true (see examples below)
• When looking up a path for parameters under it a dictionary will be returned for each path. If there is no parameter under that path then the return will be successful but the dictionary will be empty.
• If the lookup fails due to lack of permissions or due to an AWS client error then the aws_ssm will generate an error, normally crashing the current ansible task.