Fleet management is one of the main reasons for managing the EC2 instances for your application in an Auto Scaling Group. You can usually put all the healthy instance behind the load balancer and let it serve the traffic to the healthy instances. As discussed in an earlier chapter, if an EC2 instance becomes unhealthy, the load balancer will stop sending traffic to it, and you have to take appropriate action manually to ensure that instances are healthy and ready to serve traffic again. This is where Auto Scaling plays a vital role, even though you do not have any intention of scaling. Instead of running those EC2 instance independently behind the load balancer, if you add them as part of the Auto Scaling Group, Auto Scaling automatically manages the fleet behind your load balancer and you do not need to take any manual action if any one of the EC2 instances becomes...
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
Customer Reviews