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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By : Ramesh Waghmare
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By: Ramesh Waghmare

Overview of this book

AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 shows you exactly how to automate all the aspects of AWS. You can take advantage of the amazing power of the cloud, yet add powerful scripts and mechanisms to perform common tasks faster than ever before. This book expands on the Amazon documentation with real-world, useful examples and production-ready scripts to automate all the aspects of your new cloud platform. It will cover topics such as managing Windows with PowerShell, setting up security services, administering database services, and deploying and managing networking. You will also explore advanced topics such as PowerShell authoring techniques, and configuring and managing storage and content delivery. By the end of this book, you will be able to use Amazon Web Services to automate and manage Windows servers. You will also have gained a good understanding of automating the AWS infrastructure using simple coding.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating a configuration template

For creating a template, you first need to get the solution stack that you can use to create the configuration template. Solution stacks are nothing but the platforms provided by AWS to spin up your AWS resources. You choose the solution stack/platform based on your application dependency. To get the list of solution stacks available, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> (Get-EBAvailableSolutionStackList).SolutionStackDetails

Note that the list is trimmed in this case. There are many more solution stacks that you can choose from. Pay particular attention to the PermittedFileTypes column. You may see values like zip, jar, war, and json. It means those are files that you can use to deploy your application on the specific platform/solution stack. The WordPress app runs on the PHP platform, hence, let's choose one from the PHP solution...