AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the first service that AWS launched back in 2006. AWS EC2 is nothing but servers in the cloud known as EC2 instances. When AWS first launched this service, it only offered one type of EC2 instance to the customer, which was m1.small with 1vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, and 160 GB of storage. It was supported only on the Linux platform and was offered with on-demand pricing. This is called a first generation type of instances and number 1 in m1.small indicates the generation number. Though it was only one type of instance offered by AWS, it was a very attractive offering for the customer because of the on-demand pricing nature of the computing. This really formed the basis for further innovation in cloud computing for AWS. Considering the humongous success of the EC2 on-demand offering and understanding customer expectations, AWS...
AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
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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.
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
Customer Reviews