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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)

Prerequisites for AWS Tools

In order to use AWS Tools for PowerShell, you need to have the minimum configuration running:

  • Microsoft Windows XP or higher versions
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0 or higher versions (PowerShell 5.1 or later for Tools for PowerShell Core)

On Linux servers, if you install PowerShell using yum, the dependency modules will be installed automatically. With the rpm type install, you may need to install a couple of individual modules before you attempt to install PowerShell on Linux. Likewise, there are some dependencies for each platform, which can be seen as part of the documentation. I encourage you to refer to a platform-specific documentation. In this book, I will touch base on Linux and Windows related prerequisites only. On Red Hat, the PowerShell install using the yum installer will install the modules libunwind and uuid.

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