Changing a standard parameter to an advanced parameter - AWS Systems Manager
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Changing a standard parameter to an advanced parameter

Use the following procedure to change an existing standard parameter to an advanced parameter. For information about how to create a new advanced parameter, see Creating Parameter Store parameters in Systems Manager.

Console
To change a standard parameter to an advanced parameter

  1. Open the AWS Systems Manager console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/systems-manager/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Parameter Store.

  3. Choose a parameter, and then choose Edit.

  4. For Description, enter information about this parameter.

  5. Choose Advanced.

  6. For Value, enter the value of this parameter. Advanced parameters have a maximum value limit of 8 KB.

  7. Choose Save changes.

AWS CLI

You can override the default setting by specifying the parameter tier using the PutParameter operation. For example, you might want to share the default AMI value across AWS accounts. The following AWS CLI example explicitly sets the parameter tier to Advanced for the default-ami parameter in Linux & macOS.

aws ssm put-parameter \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --name "default-ami" \
    --type "String" \
    --value "t3.micro" \
    --tier "Advanced"