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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

PowerShell Essentials

PowerShell Essentials

Why PowerShell?

Running PowerShell

Reading the PowerShell language

Getting and exploring help options

Discovering cmdlets and aliases

Learning cmdlets

Risk mitigation parameters

Working with output

Running PowerShell remotely

Building parameterized script

Comment-based help

The AWS Overview

The AWS Overview

Disruptive innovations - AWS Cloud

The benefits of AWS cloud computing

Common challenges of shifting to the cloud

The AWS global infrastructure

Security and compliance

Laying out foundations

The AWS sign up

Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools

Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools

AWS Tools for PowerShell

Installing PowerShell 6 On Windows

Installing PowerShell 6 on Linux

Prerequisites for AWS Tools

Downloading and installing AWS Tools

Enabling script execution

Finding the AWS Tool version

Updating AWS Tools for PowerShell

AWS Identity and Access Management

AWS Identity and Access Management

The AWS-shared responsibility model

Setting up AWS Tools for access

Managing AWS credentials

The AWS credential search order

Creating IAM users

Creating IAM groups

Accessing the AWS console

Accessing AWS via CLI

Removing a policy from the group

Revoking a policy from the user

What are IAM roles?

Dropping groups, roles, and users

Dropping PowerShell AWS profiles

The use case - access key rotation

AWS Virtual Private Cloud

AWS Virtual Private Cloud

Laying the foundation

Virtual Private Cloud

Internet Gateways

Network Access List

Security Groups

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

The characteristics of AWS EC2

The EC2 instance purchasing options

Understanding IP addresses on EC2

Storage options on EC2

Spinning up an EC2 instance

Accessing the EC2 instance

The EC2 instance metadata service

Stopping the EC2 instance

Starting the EC2 instance

The Elastic IP address

Terminating the EC2 instance

Placement Groups

Assigning an IAM role to the EC2 instance

The types of EBS

Amazon Machine Images

AWS Simple Storage Service

AWS Simple Storage Service

Storage classes on S3

Folders and objects

Downloading folders and objects from the S3 bucket

Managing S3 permissions

Building S3 VPC endpoints

S3 Transfer Acceleration

S3 lifecycle policies

Cross-region replication

Removing the S3 bucket

Elastic Load Balancer

Elastic Load Balancer

Why load balancer?

Types of Elastic Load Balancers

Application Load Balancer components

Creating Classic Load Balancer

Creating Application Load Balancer

Deleting Elastic Load Balancer

Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling components

Auto Scaling lifecycle

Fleet management

Dynamic scaling

Creating launch configuration

Creating an Auto Scaling Group

Increasing a fleet manually

Scaling-Out and Scaling-In dynamically

Scaling on schedule

Lifecycle hooks and cooldown

Termination policies

Termination protection

Suspending the Auto Scaling process

Deleting an Auto Scaling Group

Laying Foundation for RDS Databases

Laying Foundation for RDS Databases

Database engines on RDS

Deployment consideration

DB instance classes

Multi-AZ and standby

Data encryption

Database access and IAM

DB Security Groups

DB Subnet Groups

DB Parameter Groups

DB Option Groups

DB Instance Administration and Management

DB Instance Administration and Management

RDS storage type

Licensing models on RDS

Understanding maintenance windows

Spinning up RDS DB instances

Multi-AZ deployment

Enabling encryption on RDS

Connecting to an RDS instance with and without SSL

Stop, start, and restart of a DB instance

Adding space to a DB instance

Manual snapshot of the RDS instance

Deleting an RDS instance

Checking account limit and attributes

Working with RDS Read Replicas

Working with RDS Read Replicas

Creating read replicas

Rebooting read replicas

Connecting to a read replica

Promoting read replicas to primary

Deleting read replicas

Use case - balancing traffic between read replicas

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Elastic Beanstalk components

Environment types

Understanding deployment models on Elastic Beanstalk

Creating application

Creating a configuration template

Deploying a popular WordPress application

Cloning an environment

Swapping an environment CNAME

Deleting an environment and application

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation

What is CloudFormation?

Authoring and template anatomy

Intrinsic functions

Cross stack references

Creating a base network using CloudFormation

Validating a base network template

Running a base network template

Creating an EC2 instance using CloudFormation

Dropping the template

AWS CloudWatch

Simple Notification Service

Monitoring EC2 instances

Creating an alarm for an EC2 instance

Custom monitoring for an EC2 instance

Monitoring RDS DB instances

CloudWatch logs

AWS Resource Auditing

AWS Resource Auditing

Introduction to CloudTrail

Removing the delivery channel and recorder

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