Benefits:

  • Transparency of what packages will be applied on what machines and when

  • Consistency in what packages and to what versions will be updated

  • Rollback script available by default to perform instance-level and cloud account-level rollbacks

  • Patch presence and eligibility information that cannot be retrieved from the cloud providers' data

  • Ability to match security-related packages to vulnerability scan results in one place

  • Weekly or monthly reports on available upgradable packages

  • Alerting to ticketing systems (JIRA, ServiceNow)