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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)

Enabling script execution

The PowerShell execution policy is the setting that determines the type of PowerShell scripts that can be run on the system. I noticed that by default, PowerShell is configured to prevent the execution of the scripts on Windows, whereas this is unrestricted on Linux. The execution policy is never meant to be a security control for IT admin and developers; however, it is just a precautionary measure for them not to shoot themselves in their feet. That is why there are several ways to bypass the policy in PowerShell.

Windows PowerShell execution policies are as follows. I feel Linux will be always set as Unrestricted. All these policies are meant for the Windows PowerShell environment. Likewise, for other platforms, I am not sure how these policies are treated. There is no clear documentation on the usage of these policies on other platforms. But overall...