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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)

Storage options on EC2

There are couple of storage options available to you when you make use of EC2. The first one is an instance storage and the other one is the Elastic Block Storage.

Instance storage

Instance storage comes with the host computer and is physically attached to the host computer. Instance storage comes with SSD and HDD offerings. The data on instance store is ephemeral in nature. This is also called a non-persistent data store. The amount of storage and the type that you get is totally dependent on the instance type. The data on the instance store is dependent upon the instance lifecycle. The instance store data persists only when the operating system in the EC2 instance is rebooted or the instance is restarted...