There are several ways to supply the AWS credentials. You can specify credential per-command, per-session, or for all the sessions. You should avoid exposing credentials in the command line in the form of literals, or supplying them each time you run the AWS cmdlet. For any cmdlet, there are some common parameters that you can supply each time you run the AWS-specific cmdlet. Those are mostly Access Key, Secret Access Key, Region, ProfileName, ProfileLocation , and so on. Exposing your AWS credentials in the cmdlet is not considered as a best practice. Instead, create a profile for each set of credentials that you want to use, and store the profile in the credential store. Specify the correct profile by name in your command, and let PowerShell retrieve the associated credentials from the store. You can create the different profiles using Set-AWSCredentials...
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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.
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
PowerShell Essentials
The AWS Overview
Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Virtual Private Cloud
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud
AWS Simple Storage Service
Elastic Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
Laying Foundation for RDS Databases
DB Instance Administration and Management
Working with RDS Read Replicas
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudWatch
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