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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)

Accessing the AWS console

In order to allow access to the AWS console, you need to create the IAM profile for the user Ramesh. You can use the New-IAMLoginProfile cmdlet for this purpose:

PS C:\> New-IAMLoginProfile -UserName Ramesh -Password Test123 -PasswordResetRequired $false

If you want to enforce the password change at first log in, then you can use the PasswordResetRequired $true parameter with the cmdlet.

If you are fail to set the password and do not know the password rules, then make use of the Get-IAMAccountPasswordPolicy cmdlet. This will list the rules enforced at the AWS account level:

PS C:\> IAMAccountPasswordPolicy

Now, get the AWS account alias using this:

PS C:\> Get-IAMAccountAlias

And make use of the alias returned by the Get-IAMAccountAlias cmdlet to sign in to the AWS console using the following:

https://<account-alias>.signin.aws.amazon...