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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)

S3 Transfer Acceleration

S3 Transfer Acceleration is an optional and added feature supported by S3 that allows clients to transfer the files from remote locations in a fast and secure way. This feature is disabled by default and enabled when needed. When enabled, additional data transfer charges may apply as this feature makes use of the edge location closest to the client.

If you are moving more data between regions, or moving a lot more data across continents, or if your customers are sitting very far away physically from their AWS regions, or if you move large number of objects, S3 Transfer Acceleration is quite a useful feature here. AWS expects that your transfer will be more than 300% faster for most of the use cases and AWS will not charge the customer if the transfer is not faster.

AWS provides you the S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison tool and it can be accessed...