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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 Glacier

Amazon Glacier is a deep archival and extremely low-cost storage service starting at $0.004 per GB per month. It is also a highly durable object store and offers the same durability as S3. That is, 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability, which means that if you store 10,000 objects in the Glacier for 10 million years, you can hardly loose anyone of them. This also indicates a 5-6 order of magnitude higher than the two copies of the tape. AWS introduced three retrieval options ranging from minutes to hours, and are planning to add some more options in the future. This is extremely beneficial for the customer, and retrieval out of the Glacier is not seen as a concern anymore. Because of the new retrieval offering, Glacier can now address full spectrum of archival used cases. All the data stored on the Glacier is encrypted at rest, regardless of how you pass it. Even if...