# Questions on patching #AWS AMIs

**URL:** <https://community.cloudbank.org/t/questions-on-patching-aws-amis/44>\
**Category:** AWS\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://community.cloudbank.org/t/questions-on-patching-aws-amis/44 "2020-08-20T00:57:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://community.cloudbank.org/t/questions-on-patching-aws-amis/44/1 "2020-08-20T00:57:46Z")

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I understand how an AMI is “everything needed” to restart my work environment from where I left off… and it includes the complete operating system. But don’t operating systems need patches? So how often do I need to patch my OS? And how do I do that? And doesn’t that kind of go against the idea that the cloud is “no maintenance”?