Benefits:
Transparency of what packages will be applied on what machines and when
Consistency Rollback mechanismin 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 which 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)