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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)

AWS Simple Storage Service

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is an unlimited object store service. Almost every customer that I work with uses S3 for data storage because S3 is really cheap, easy to use, and integrated with various other AWS services. This is a core storage service considering the storage options on AWS. S3 offers various storage classes to optimize the cost. It is a highly available and durable object store that has 99.99% of availability and 99.999999999% of durability. Objects within a bucket in the region are synchronized across all the availability zones for extremely high availability and durability. You can think of a bucket as a local drive on your computer and directories as folders inside the bucket. As buckets are region specific, you should always create an S3 bucket in the region that makes sense to its purpose, such as sharing content to customers...