Example scenario representative of what you might need to solve in the Certified Kubernetes Admin (CKA), or even the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Exam
To check the state of the cluster as an external observer, you can use the RunCommand API in AWS Systems Manager using the AWS-RunShellScript document. An example of a command to run on the master is:
kubectl --kubeconfig=/home/ubuntu/.kube/config get nodes