Not really. I don't do any customer-oriented things on EC2 so my experience may differ, but to manage my VM's I just setup a bunch of cronjobs to update everyth

Not really. I don't do any customer-oriented things on EC2 so my experience may differ, but to manage my VM's I just setup a bunch of cronjobs to update everything, reboot every so often and start my programs and services after each reboot.