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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)

Summary

AWS S3 is the most used service because of its simplicity and several powerful capabilities for out-of-the-box data management. The S3 service provides you various choices of storage classes and the ability to simplify your S3 data management using lifecycle policies. It is an unlimited web object store, which is highly durable and available. You have the capability to use S3 with other AWS services with very simple permission setup or configuration. There are a variety of options to store encrypted data. S3 also provides you with high performance for uploads and downloads. There are a number of use cases for which you can use this service. I suggest that you review several use cases published on the AWS website. In the next chapter, you will learn about building a highly available, fault-tolerant environment.