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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By : Ramesh Waghmare
Book Image

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)

Folders and objects

Buckets are root level folders, or you can think of it as a local drive in your own computer. You can dump everything in the bucket. But there is a limit on the number of buckets that you can create in the region. So, it is always a best practice to create subfolders inside the bucket, and place the object in those subfolders. This way, you can never hit the limit of max buckets and your storage is infinitely scalable. Objects are any files placed in the bucket or folder.

To get the list of all the folders and objects in the bucket, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> Get-S3Object -BucketName myfirstpowershellbucket

Let's assume you want to create an Images folder in your bucket called myfirstpowershellbucket and upload the D:\sampleimages folder from your local computer to the S3 bucket; you run the following command:

PS C:\> Write-S3Object...