When applications running on EC2 instances need to access other AWS resources, an application needs credentials, such as access key and secret access key. You can distribute access keys and secret access keys with applications to the EC2 instance, but that is not the best practice. IAM roles are designed in such a way that your applications can make API requests from your EC2 instances without requiring you to manage any security credentials that application needs. Instead, you can assign an IAM role to the EC2 instance that has permissions but does not have any long-term credentials. For example, you can use IAM roles to grant permissions to applications running on your EC2 instances that needs to use a bucket in Amazon S3. You can specify permissions for IAM roles by creating a policy in the JSON format. These are similar to the policies...
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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.
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
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
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