When you think Design for Failure, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is one of the AWS services you need to start using. It is a component used to balance network traffic across multiple EC2 and ECS instances within multiple availability zones. With the introduction of ELB, we can automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple applications, microservices, and containers hosted on AWS EC2 instances. You can also think of ELB as a traffic manager. ECS is an AWS EC2 container service, which is not covered in this book, but I would like to encourage you to read more on this service if you are a big fan of Docker containers and Kubernetes. I will limit the scope to EC2 instances load balancing in this chapter. ELB allows you to achieve a greater level of fault tolerance and higher availability. The beauty of this service is, it scales its request...
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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
