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SSM Parameter Store

Parameter Store — hierarchical parameter paths, secure strings, tiered types.

JSON-RPC (X-Amz-Target) multi-tenant 12 operations

Quick start

import boto3
ssm = boto3.client("ssm", endpoint_url="http://localhost:4566",
                   region_name="us-east-1",
                   aws_access_key_id="test", aws_secret_access_key="test")
ssm.put_parameter(Name="/app/db", Value="jdbc:...", Type="String")
print(ssm.get_parameter(Name="/app/db")["Parameter"]["Value"])

Supported operations

12 operations exposed by this service as of MiniStack 1.4.21. Extracted directly from the handler dispatch in the source module.

AddTagsToResource DeleteParameter DeleteParameters DescribeParameters GetParameter GetParameterHistory GetParameters GetParametersByPath LabelParameterVersion ListTagsForResource PutParameter RemoveTagsFromResource

CloudFormation

The CloudFormation engine provisions these resource types via this service:

AWS::SSM::Parameter

See CloudFormation engine for intrinsic support and lifecycle details.

Known limitations

  • Systems Manager Run Command, Session Manager, and Patch Manager are not implemented — Parameter Store is the supported surface.

Source

  • ministack/services/ssm.py

Read the source to verify the ops list above — dispatch tables and handler functions are the ground truth.