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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)

Laying out foundations

Laying foundations for your AWS journey is very crucial. If you are architecting your organization application framework on AWS, then just spinning up EC2 or RDS for moving your on-premise applications and databases are not enough. You should understand the frameworks and tools provided by AWS to lay the foundations. Overall there are four areas that you can focus on:

  • Accounts: Some organizations might want to create a single AWS root account and host different types of environments in different VPCs or some might think that having different accounts for different environments is a right thing to do. You should think about the account structure that will make sense in your organization. Nothing wrong or right, but it would help you to segregate environments appropriately. Hence, understanding where development, testing, and production should be hosted would...