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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)

Route Tables

A Route Table is what basically directs the traffic in the VPC. AWS defines a Route Table as a set of rules called routes that are used to determine where network traffic is directed. Each Route Table has two main components called target and destination. The target indicates where the data is being routed to, and the destination indicates the CIDR block range of the target where the data is routed to. With the default VPC, you get one Route Table, which is assigned to the default VPC. It is considered a best practice to leave the default Route Table as it is and create new Route Tables for your own custom VPC. There are two main characteristics that you must know about the Route Table. First, by default, all the subnet traffic is allowed to the other available subnet within your VPC, and is called as a local route. Second, you can modify the local route. The best...