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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)

AWS Virtual Private Cloud

Laying foundations for your AWS journey is crucial. Do not assume that just creating a root account and some IAM users is the thing you need to do in order to get started on AWS. Spinning up servers for your application and database workload requires planning, and it starts with defining the networking component on AWS. This brings in a lot more complexity when you have the hybrid environment. Most importantly, you should understand the framework and tools provided by AWS to lay down this foundation. Usually, it is a best practice to start thinking about the account management practices that you want to use for your AWS journey. Some organizations consider creating a single AWS root account and hosting different types of environment in different VPCs, or some might think that having different accounts for different environments is the right thing to do...