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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 benefits of AWS cloud computing

AWS Cloud provides various services in regard to compute, storage, networking, applications, and many more supportive services. These sets of services offer numerous benefits. At a high level, these benefits are highlighted in the following list. These benefits are very attractive to most organizations from a cost and scalability perspective:

  • No capital expenditure: There is no need to invest heavily in setting up your own data centers. All of your organization's upfront capital investment is not needed anymore. You simply spin up the servers and make use of the various AWS services on a pay-as-you-go model. You have only your operational cost when you work with AWS. You stop incurring cost when you stop using AWS resources.
  • No maintenance of data centers: AWS Cloud has sophisticated data centers connected to multiple grids, which are...