Let's understand PowerShell and PowerShell Core. PowerShell has been around for use on Windows systems since 2006. It is known as a task automation and a configuration management framework, particularly known for Windows systems until now. PowerShell is built on .NET Framework. .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Windows. PowerShell Core is built on top of .NET Core. .NET Core is a cross-platform and open source managed software framework similar to .NET Framework. Going forward, PowerShell for Windows and PowerShell Core would be PowerShell. Presently, I feel these two terminologies are used because the community wants to identify the open source related effort for PowerShell as PowerShell Core. With the release of PowerShell 6.0, Microsoft has officially made PowerShell open source, providing the capability...
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
PowerShell Essentials
The AWS Overview
Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Virtual Private Cloud
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud
AWS Simple Storage Service
Elastic Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
Laying Foundation for RDS Databases
DB Instance Administration and Management
Working with RDS Read Replicas
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudWatch
