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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)

The AWS Overview

Cloud computing is the most discussed area these days and has created a huge footprint in IT. It is popularly known as cloud, and it is simply an on-demand provisioning of the IT resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. Most of us use cloud computing all day long without realizing it. When we sit at the PC and type a query into our favorite web search engine, the computer that we are using isn't playing much part in finding the answers for the query we submitted. Our computer is just no more than a messenger. The words of the query are swiftly shuttled over the internet, and through search engine providers, hundreds of thousands of clustered computers dig out the results and send them promptly back to us. The real work done by the search engine provider could be in any part of the world; most likely, we do not care. What we care about is the result we wanted for...