Use CreateActivation with a CLI

To create a managed instance activation

The following create-activation example creates a managed instance activation.

aws ssm create-activation \
    --default-instance-name "HybridWebServers" \
    --iam-role "HybridWebServersRole" \
    --registration-limit 5

Output:

{
    "ActivationId": "5743558d-563b-4457-8682-d16c3EXAMPLE",
    "ActivationCode": "dRmgnYaFv567vEXAMPLE"
}

For more information, see Step 4: Create a Managed-Instance Activation for a Hybrid Environment in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.

Example 1: This example creates a managed instance.

New-SSMActivation -DefaultInstanceName "MyWebServers" -IamRole "SSMAutomationRole" -RegistrationLimit 10

Output:

ActivationCode       ActivationId
--------------       ------------
KWChhOxBTiwDcKE9BlKC 08e51e79-1e36-446c-8e63-9458569c1363